Michael Foylan

Michael Foylan (29 June 1907 – 28 May 1976) was a Scottish clergyman who served as the Roman Catholic Bishop of Aberdeen from 1964 to 1976.

[1] Born in Shettleston, Glasgow, Lanarkshire in June 1907, he was ordained a priest on 5 July 1931 for the Diocese of Dunkeld.

[2] He was appointed parish priest of St Serf's, High Valleyfield in 1946 and returned to St Andrew's Cathedral as parish priest in 1949.

[2] He was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Aberdeen by the Holy See on 8 December 1964, and consecrated to the Episcopate on 25 March 1965.

The principal consecrator was Archbishop Gordon Joseph Gray, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop Joseph Michael McGee and Bishop William Andrew Hart.