previous_post predecessor successor death_date consecration birth_place title type see term birth_date article_title name church
abbot -rrb- of jedburgh -lrb- 1468 & ndash ; 1478 henry cockburn william elphinstone before 3 august 1481 unknown unknown bishop of ross bishop diocese of ross 1476 & ndash ; 1480 × 1481 unknown john woodman
 john woodman roman catholic church
john woodman

john woodman -lsb- wodman -rsb- -lrb- d. 1480 × 1481 -rrb- was a 15th-century churchman based in the kingdom of scotland .
woodman was a canon of the diocese of st andrews , and as such was locally made prior of pittenweem on the death of the previous prior , james kennedy , bishop of st andrews ; however , he was opposed by one walter monypenny , while the new bishop , patrick graham , desired the position for himself .
woodman had lost litigation for this post to monypenny by 17 september 1466 , and possession to the bishop , though woodman was still claiming this priory as late as 1477 when he became bishop of ross .
some time after november 1465 , he was collated as prior of restenneth by bishop patrick graham , which involved him in unsuccessful litigation against the sitting prior james dunmain .
in 1468 , while still litigating with dunmain in the papal curia , he was provided as abbot of jedburgh .
the death of the previous abbot andrew bolton led the bishop of glasgow to try to imposed robert turnbull as abbot , but it was woodman who secured papal provision .
woodman was provided to the bishopric of ross sometime before 20 august 1476 , but after 22 july .
he occurs as bishop-elect on 17 august 1477 , and on 16 october made a payment to the papacy of 321 gold florins through nicholas de rabatis and rayner de ricolis .
he occurs again as bishop-elect of ross -lrb- though unnamed -rrb- on 4 may 1478 .
woodman was in the archdiocese of york in 1480 , allegedly acting as a suffragan , though this may be doubtful .
we have no knowledge of his consecration , and his successor william elphinstone was provided to the -lrb- now vacant -rrb- bishopric of ross on 3 august 1481 following the death of woodman , though it is not possible to date woodman 's death more narrowly than either 1480 or 1481 .
