James Hepburn (bishop)
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James Hepburn was a Scottish
Scottish people
The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...

 prelate
Prelate
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 and administrator. He was the son of Alexander Hepburn of Whitsome
Whitsome
Whitsome is a small rural village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, on the B6437, near Duns, Fogo, Leitholm, Ladykirk and Swinton.-Place-name meaning:...

. His name occurs as the rector
Rector
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 of Dalry
Dalry
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 and king's clerk on 1 August 1511. Hepburn was Treasurer of Scotland
Treasurer of Scotland
The Treasurer was a senior post in the pre-Union government of Scotland, the Privy Council of Scotland.The full title of the post was Lord High Treasurer, Comptroller, Collector-General and Treasurer of the New Augmentation, formed as it was from the amalgamation of four earlier offices...

 between from at least June 1515, until October the following year. He also held the position of rector of Parton
Parton
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 in the diocese of Galloway
Diocese of Galloway
The Diocese of Galloway was one of the thirteen dioceses of the pre-1689 Scottish Church. The Diocese was led by the Bishop of Galloway and was centred on Whithorn Cathedral....

.

He was elected Bishop of Moray
Bishop of Moray
The Bishop of Moray or Bishop of Elgin was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Moray in northern Scotland, one of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics...

 sometime before 12 February 1516, on the nomination of the Governor of Scotland, John Stewart, Duke of Albany, following the translation of Bishop Andrew Forman
Andrew Forman
Andrew Forman was a Scottish diplomat and prelate who became Bishop of Moray in 1501, Archbishop of Bourges in France, in 1513, Archbishop of St Andrews in 1514 as well as the headship of several monasteries....

 to the Archbishopric of St Andrews
Archbishop of St Andrews
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.

Hepburn had been granted the temporalities of the see
Episcopal See
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 by 28 August. With his provision by Pope Leo X
Pope Leo X
Pope Leo X , born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, was the Pope from 1513 to his death in 1521. He was the last non-priest to be elected Pope. He is known for granting indulgences for those who donated to reconstruct St. Peter's Basilica and his challenging of Martin Luther's 95 Theses...

 on 14 May 1516, he received a Bull
Papal bull
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 exempting him from the metropolitan and legatine jurisdiction of the Archbishop of St Andrews. Although Archbishop Forman (d. 1521) had consented to this, his successor James Beaton
James Beaton
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 resented it, and wrote to a senior Cardinal as a part of a wider attempt to have this reversed.

Among other activities as during his short episcopate, Hepburn instituted the church of Duffus
Duffus
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 as a new rectory
Rectory
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. He died shortly before 11 November 1524.
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