Randal MacAlister

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Randal George Leslie MacAlister was an eminent Anglican priest in the last quarter of the 20th century and the early part of the 21st.

He was born on 31 December 1941 and educated at The Royal School, Armagh and Trinity College, Dublin. [1] Ordained in 1966, [2] his career began with a curacy at St Mark's Portadown after which he was Rector of St John’s Greenock, then of St John's Forfar. [3] Next he was Chaplain of St Mark's Sophia Antipolis in France before his appointment as Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane. [4] A keen student of the Gaelic language, [5] he retired in 2006 [6] He died in Corthachy, Angus on 19 June 2009. [7]

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Born on 7 December 1931 and educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, he was ordained, after a period of study at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield in 1958. He began his career with curacies St John's, East Dulwich and St Michael's, Inverness, of which he was then Rector until 1970. He was Priest in charge of St Columba's, Grantown-on-Spey with St John the Baptist's, Rothiemurchus until 1978 after which he was canon of St Andrew's Cathedral, Inverness and Synod Clerk for the Diocese of Argyll and The Isles for a further nine years. In 1987 he became Dean of Argyll and The Isles a post he held for twelve years.

References

  1. Who's Who2008: London, A & C Black ISBN   978-0-7136-8555-8
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing ISBN   978-0-7151-1030-0
  3. Church Web Site
  4. "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN   0-567-08746-8
  5. Debrett's People of Today London,2008 Debrett's, ISBN   978-1-870520-95-9
  6. Church Times appointments
  7. "Randal MacAlister". The Scotsman. 29 June 2009. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
Alfred Watt
Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane
1998–2006
Succeeded by
Bob Gillies