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Roderick MacLean (bishop)

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Roderick MacLean
Bishop of the Isles
DioceseDiocese of Sodor
In office1550–1553
PredecessorFerchar MacEachan
SuccessorThomas Stanley
Personal details
Died1553
NationalityScottish
DenominationRoman Catholic

Roderick MacLean (Scots Gaelic:Ruaidhri Mac Gill-Eathain) was a 16th-century Scottish bishop of the Isles. He was appointed as bishop on 5 March 1550 and died in 1553.

In Rome, in 1549, he published a Latin translation of a large portion of Adomnan of Iona's 'Life of St Columba, which was a very obscure text at the time.[1]

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  1. ^ Adomnan of Iona. Life of St Columba. ed. by Richard Sharpe, Penguin Books, 1995. A Macquarrie and R P H Green. The Poems of Roderick MacLean. Scottish History Society, 2022.
Religious titles
Preceded by
Ferchar MacEachan
Bishop of the Isles
1550–1553
Succeeded by