PATERSON, John Bishop of Ross

1604 - 1679  (75 years)

• Name	PATERSON, John
  Suffix	Bishop of Ross
  Born	1604
  Gender	Male
  Died	1679
  Person ID	I26697	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023

  
  

  Family	RAMSEY, Elizabeth
  Children	1. PATERSON, Isabella  [natural]   2. PATERSON, John Archbishop of Glasgow  [natural]   3. PATERSON, George of Seafield  [natural]   4. PATERSON, Sir William of Granton  [natural]   5. PATERSON, Thomas  [natural]   6. PATERSON, Robert  [natural]   7. PATERSON, James  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F20324	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  John Paterson (1604–1679) was the Bishop of Ross in Scotland. Life Paterson graduated from King's College, Aberdeen in 1624, and was appointed to the church of Foveran, Aberdeenshire, in 1632. He refused to sign the National Covenant of 1639, and fled to England to the king. In July of the following year, however, he recanted in a sermon before the general assembly and was restored to his church at Foveran. Paterson was a member of the commission of the assembly in 1644, 1645, 1648 and 1649. In 1661 he was named a commissioner for the visitation of the university of Aberdeen. In 1649 he had left Foveran to become minister of Ellon in Aberdeenshire. He was among the benefactors contributing to the erection of a new building at King's College, Aberdeen, in 1658.[1] In 1659 Paterson was translated to the ministry of Aberdeen (the third charge). In 1662 he was appointed the Bishop of Ross, being consecrated on 7 May 1662 at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh. He was opposed to the preaching of the Covenanting Presbytrian John M'Gilligen.[2] He died in January 1679. Family Paterson was married to Elizabeth Ramsay, by whom he had six sons and a daughter. His children were John Paterson (Archbishop of Glasgow), George Paterson of Seafield (commissary); Sir William Paterson of Granton (barrister and clerk to the privy council); Thomas Paterson; Robert Paterson (principal of Marischal College, Aberdeen); James Paterson; and a daughter, Isabella, who married Kenneth Mackenzie of Suddie.[3] References 1 Fasti Aberdonenses, Spalding Club, 1854, p. 541. 2 M'Crie, Thomas, D.D. the younger (1847). The Bass rock: Its civil and ecclesiastic history. Edinburgh: J. Greig & Son. p. 236. Retrieved 22 December 2018. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. 3 Gordon, Scots Affairs, Spalding, Memorials, and Diary of the Lairds of Brodie, all published by the Spalding Club; Guthrie, Memoirs; Scott, Fasti Eccl. Scot. iii. pp. 454, 602, 607. Sources • Keith, Robert, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688, (London, 1824) • Macray, W. D. (1895). "Paterson, John (1632-1708)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co. • Pearce, A. S. Wayne, "Paterson, John (1604–1679)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 retrieved 10 May 2007