Hugh MacDonald (vicar apostolic of the Highland District)

For the 19th-century Roman Catholic bishop, see Hugh MacDonald (bishop of Aberdeen).

The Right Reverend

Hugh MacDonald
Vicar Apostolic of the Highland District
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
Appointed12 February 1731
Term ended12 March 1773
PredecessorAlexander Grant
SuccessorJohn MacDonald
Other post(s)Titular Bishop of Diana
Orders
Ordination18 September 1725
by James Gordon
Consecration18 October 1731
by James Gordon
Personal details
Born2 February 1699
Morar, Inverness-shire, Scotland
Died12 March 1773 (aged 74)
Glen Garry, Scotland

Hugh MacDonald (2 February 1699 – 12 March 1773) was a Roman Catholic bishop who served as the Vicar Apostolic of the Highland District for the strictly illegal and underground Catholic Church in Scotland between 1731 and 1773.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Rev. A. Macdonald, Minister of Killearnan; Rev. A. Macdonald, Minister of Kilarlity (1904). The Clan Donald. Vol. 3. Inverness: The Northern Counties Publishing Company, Ltd. p. 255.
  2. ^ William Maziere Brady (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Vol. 3. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace. p. 465.
  3. ^ "Bishop Hugh MacDonald". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 30 September 2010.