Brechin is a town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. Traditionally Brechin was described as a city because of its cathedral and its status as the seat of a pre-Reformation Roman Catholic diocese, but that status has not been officially recognised in the modern era.
Alexander Penrose Forbes was a Scottish Episcopalian divine, born in Edinburgh. A leading cleric in the Scottish Episcopal Church, he was Bishop of Brechin from 1847 until his death in 1875.
The Diocese of Brechin is in the east of Scotland, and is the smallest of the seven dioceses of the Scottish Episcopal Church. It covers the historic counties of Angus and Kincardineshire. It stretches from Muchalls in the north east down to Dundee in the south, and across to Glencarse in the south west. The cathedral and administrative centre is St Paul’s Cathedral in Dundee. The diocese continues to be named after its medieval centre of Brechin.
Frederick Charles Darwent was bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, from 1976 to 1991.
The Diocese of Dunkeld is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in southern Scotland. The current bishop of the diocese is, Andrew McKenzie, having been appointed as the diocese’s eleventh bishop, on 27 May 2024.
Christopher Russell Campling was a British Anglican priest who was the Dean of Ripon.
Hugh Willoughby Jermyn was an Anglican bishop in the second half of the 19th century and the very start of the 20th.
Lawrence Edward Luscombe OStJ was a British Anglican bishop and author. He was Bishop of Brechin from 1975 to 1990 and primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church from 1985 to 1990.
John Chappell Sprott was an eminent Anglican priest in the mid 20th century.
The post of Archdeacon of Chichester was created in the 12th century, although the Diocese of Sussex was founded by St Wilfrid, the exiled Bishop of York, in AD 681. The original location of the see was in Selsey. The see was moved to Chichester, in about 1075, by decree of the Synod of London. Currently, Luke Irvine-Capel is the Archdeacon.
Wilfrid Denys Pawson was Archdeacon of Lindisfarne from 1956 until his death.
Mark David Ashcroft is a British retired Anglican bishop. From 2016 until 2023, he was the Bishop of Bolton. He had previously been Archdeacon of Manchester from 2009 to 2016. Apart from ten years working in Kenya, he has spent all his ordained ministry in the Diocese of Manchester, Church of England.
The Rev Canon Ian Guild Stewart was Dean of Brechin from 2007 until 2008.
Joseph Brewer Jobberns OBE was a Scottish Episcopal priest who was Dean of Brechin from 1931 until his death in 1936.
William Leslie Christie was Dean of Brechin from 1917 until 1931.
Rev. William Charles Simons was an English Anglican priest who served as Dean of Brechin from 1913 until 1917.
Richard Elual Kerrin was Dean of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1956 to 1969.
Jacqueline Ann "Jackie" Searle is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2018, she has served as the Bishop of Crediton, a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Exeter. She had previously been the Archdeacon of Gloucester between 2012 and 2018.
Arun Arora is a British Anglican bishop and solicitor. Since, 2022 he has served as Bishop of Kirkstall in the Diocese of Leeds. From 2012 to 2017, he served as Director of Communications of the Archbishops' Council of the Church of England, then until 2022 as vicar of St Nicholas' Church, Durham.
Andrew Christopher Swift, is a British Anglican bishop and former engineer. Since 2018, he has been the Bishop of Brechin in the Scottish Episcopal Church.
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