Abel de Gullane

Gullane

Gullane is a town on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth in East Lothian on the east coast of Scotland. There has been a church in the village since the 9th century. The ruins of the Old Church of St...

[Golynn, Golin] was a 13th century Bishop of St Andrews. He had been archdeacon

Archdeacon

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 of the diocese, and subsequently a Papal chaplain

Chaplain

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. In early 1254, after quashing the election of Robert de Stuteville

Robert de Stuteville

Robert de Stuteville was Bishop-elect of St Andrews and Bishop of Dunkeld. Robert was dean of Dunkeld as early as 1253, when he was elected to the bishopric of St Andrews on 28 June that year. Unfortunately for Robert, his election was opposed by the king, at the time, Alexander III, and by the...

, the Pope

Pope

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 provided

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 Abel to the bishopric, a decision not universally popular in Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. His first appearance back at St Andrews

St Andrews

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 as bishop was on 29 June 1254, when he is recorded as celebrating the Papal mass

Mass (liturgy)

"Mass" is one of the names by which the sacrament of the Eucharist is called in the Roman Catholic Church: others are "Eucharist", the "Lord's Supper", the "Breaking of Bread", the "Eucharistic assembly ", the "memorial of the Lord's Passion and Resurrection", the "Holy Sacrifice", the "Holy and...

. He died only a few months later, on 1 December.