The Irish standard., 1892-07-30
MGR. MACDONALD.
He Succeeds Most Rev. William
Smith as Head Of the Scotch
Hierarchy.
THE MACDONALD FAMILY,
Their Estates Were COnfscated by
the Crown After the Battle
of CullOden.

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of Culloden.
Among the pontifcal nominations
that we're announced to the consistory
held in Rome the other day was that of
Right Rev. Angus Macdonald, hitherto
Bishop of Argyll and the Isles, to be the
successor in the metropolitan Scotch See
of St. Andrews and Edinburgh of Most
Rev. William Smith, whose death oc-
CURED in the early spring of the present
year. AS the incumbent of St. Andrew IS
and Edinburgh is the metropolitan of all
the Scotch bishops-the archbishoprlc of
Glasgow being merely an honorary posi-
tion at present, DR.. Macdonald, who now
occupies that see, is the head of the
Scotch hierarchy, and as such will pre-
side at all national ecclesiastical assem-
blies and all hierarchical councils.
Archbishop Macdonald, says writer
in the Boston Republic, belongs to one Of
the famous Jacobite families OF Scot
land whose estates were conhscated by
the crown after the disastrous battle of
Culloden, which crushed the hopes of
the Stuarts and sent SO many Highland
Catholics into exile. A younger scion of
his family is Right Rev. Hugh Macdon-
aid, who was appointed couple of years
ago the ordinary of the diocese OF Aber-
deem, and who, pGior to his promotion to
the purple, was provincial in the Re-
demptorist order, to which community
he belongs. The new primate was born
Sept. 18, 1914, at Borrodale, in Inverness
shire; studied at Ushaw, where he was
ordained a priest July II, 1872, and, after
serving six months on the mission, he
was nominated the first incumbent of
the diocese of Argyll and the Isles, erec-
ted by the Papal brief dated March 4,
1878, eighteen days after the issuance of
that letter. His conservation took place
at st, Andrews Cathedral, Glasgow, the
23d of the following May, SO that he has
worn the mitre q little more than four
teen years.
When Leo XIII, in the first year of
his pontifcate, restored the Scotch hier-
archy, he fixed the boundaries of the
diocese which DR.. Macdonald has so we'll
ruled since his conservation as follows:
4sThe diocese of Argyll and the Isles
shall comprise the county of Argyll, the
islands of Butte and Arran, the Hebrides,
and the southern portion of the county
of Inverness which stretches from Loch
Linnhe to the eastern boundary of the
said county according to the line above
described" The seat of this see is Oban,
Argyllshire; and the cathedral, which Is
dedicated to st. Columbia, dates from
1879, the year following DR.. Macdonald's S
conservation. From these western
Highland regions, over which DR.. Mac
donald's episcopal Jurisdiction extends,
came, century and a half ago now, the
pioneers OF that numerous body Of
Scotch Catholics who now people num-
Der of the Canadian dioceses, notably
Alexandra, Antagonist and Charlotte
town. "From the misty isles, and from
the straths, glens and mountains of In
vernsshire, Ross and Argyllshire," wrote
one of these Canadian Catholics of his
neighbors, "come nearly all of this silent
Highland folk. From Lochaber, syn
onym for an exile's wall; from Glengarry
and Arisaig, from Knoydart and Moran
and Stradthglas; from the wave beaten
isles of Eigg and Kama and Uist."
Turn to the list of parishes in the diocese
Of Argyll and the Isles, and you will find
nearly every one of these localities set
down there; and there, too, are to be
found those other places mentioned by
the same writer when he says on an
other page: ''Ten years later, 1876, the
Hebrideans set sail from Kama and
Muck and Ronin, and the shelter of
towering Scaur-Eigg; from the shadow
Of sacred Iona, from Null and wild TREE;
from Uist and Skye Of gray mists,
From Ulva dark and Colonsay,
And all the group of islands gay
That guard famed staffa round.''
The Scotch church has probably seldom
il ever, been without Macdonald high in
ecclesiastical rank and authority. At
the present time the head Of its heir
archy bears that honored name, and an
other bis brother, governs the see Of
Aberdeen, ono of his predecessors hav-
ingbean aMaodonald also, Right Rev.
John Mac cdonald, the first incumbent Of
the restored see, and, prior to that, the
olieN of the northern Scotch
district. Nor iis it alone ia Scotland that