Gregor MacGregor (bishop)

Gregor MacGregor (17 November 1933 – 29 June 2003) was Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness in the second half of the 20th century.

[1] MacGregor was educated at Hutchesons' Boys' Grammar School in Glasgow, where he became Dux, he went on to serve in the Royal Navy, gaining a commission as a sub-lieutenant in the RNVR.

After he finished his studies in 1967, he was stationed as a Church of Scotland minister in Stromness, Orkney, set with the task of uniting two congregations.

He was ordained deacon and priest in 1977 and was given charge of the parish of Elie and Earlsferry in the East Neuk of Fife.

However, this was not satisfying to him and consequently returned to the Diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane and became rector of Dollar, Clackmannanshire where he founded a group of fellow Franciscan Tertiaries.