Claim: John Fullarton and John Sage, former ministers of Sccotland, were consecrated on January 25, 1705 in Dundee by John Paterson, Alexander Rose, and Robert Douglas.
Evidence: On 25 January 1705 Sage was privately consecrated at Edinburgh, along with John Fullarton, as a college bishop (i.e. a bishop without diocese or jurisdiction), as part of the policy of continuing the nonjuring episcopal order, while respecting the right of the crown to nominate to sees. John Fullarton was consecrated a college bishop by the Archbishop of Glasgow, the Bishop of Edinburgh and Bishop of Dunblane on 25 January 1705 and was elected Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus in April 1720, with limited metropolitan powers, following the death of Dr Alexander Rose. John Paterson (1632–1708) was the last archbishop of Glasgow in the Church of Scotland. He rose to become Bishop of Moray and then Bishop of Edinburgh. Douglas was Bishop of Dunblane until the abolition of Episcopacy in Scotland following the Revolution deprived Douglas and all other Scottish bishops of their sees.