Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 2 (of 3), Church and cultureSkene, W. F. (William Forbes)
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Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 2 (of 3), Church and culture
Skene, W. F. (William Forbes)
Celts -- Scotland; Civilization, Celtic; Scotland -- Antiquities, Celtic; Scotland -- History -- To 1603
Though the church benefited by this act of King Giric, it does not
appear to have availed much, so far as his personal object was
concerned; for he was, along with his pupil the British son of Kenneth’s
daughter, driven out, and the throne was once more occupied by his male
descendants. They now were called no longer kings of the Picts, but
kings of Alban; and the districts between the Forth and the Spey are no
longer Fortrenn, or Pictland, but Alban. The reign of the second of
these kings of Alban was an important one for the Church, for in his
sixth year—that is, about 908—a great meeting was held on the Moothill
of Scone, at which King Constantin and Bishop Cellach ‘solemnly vow to
protect the laws and discipline of the faith, and the rights of the
churches and of the Gospel, equally with the Scots.’[611] Two facts may
fairly be deduced from the short notice of this meeting given in the
Pictish Chronicle; first, that it secured the rights and liberties of
the church as now amalgamated into one body; and secondly, that the
leading part taken in it by Bishop Cellach obviously places him at the
head of the church, and the primacy must now have been transferred from
Abernethy to St. Andrews. There are two lists of the bishops of St.
Andrews given to us; one by Bower, who was abbot of Inchcolm, and the
other by Wyntoun, who was primate of Lochleven. These lists agree, and
in both Cellach appears as first bishop of St. Andrews.[612] This
meeting may be held to have in fact finally constituted the Scottish
Church under its then organisation, in which it was placed under the
government of one bishop, who was designated _Epscop Alban_, or bishop
of Alban.[613]
[Sidenote: A.D. 921.
Introduction of canonical rule of Culdees.]
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