previous_post predecessor successor death_date consecration birth_place death_place title type see term birth_date article_title name church
succentor -rrb- of ross -lrb- fl . 1255 × 1271 robert -lrb- ii . -rrb- robert -lrb- iii . -rrb- 1274 × 25 december 1274 unknown lyons , france -lrb- ? -rrb- bishop of ross bishop diocese of ross 1272 & ndash ; 1274 unknown matthew -lrb- bishop of ross -rrb-
 matthew roman catholic church
matthew -lrb- bishop of ross -rrb-

matthew -lrb- died 1274 -rrb- was a 13th-century cleric based in the kingdom of scotland .
walter bower called him `` macchabeus '' , a latinization -lrb- literature -rrb- of the gaelic name `` mac bethad '' or `` mac beathadh '' , previously held by a 12th-century bishop .
either bower is confused or matthew changed his name or took a pseudonym more appropriate to the environment of the `` international '' church , a practise not unusual in the period .
he was given the title of `` magister '' -lrb- `` master '' -rrb- by bower , indicating the completion of a university education and more particularly of a masters ' degree at some stage in his life , but details of this have not survived and the title may be spurious .
he is found as succentor of the cathedral of ross in a moray document dating between 1255 and 1271 ; he is the first person known to have held this position , and probably the first to have held this new position under the new cathedral constitution of 1256 .
after the death of robert , bishop of ross , matthew was part of the team of five `` compromissarii '' -lrb- delegated electors -rrb- who voted for the new bishop ; as it happened , it was matthew who was elected .
he travelled to the papal court at orvieto , along with the archdeacon robert de fyvie , and without waiting very long , was consecrated by pope gregory x personally -lrb- `` per nos ipsos '' -rrb- by 28 december 1272 , on which date a mandate was issued authorising him to proceed to his bishopric .
presumably after returning to ross , he travelled back to continental europe to attend the second council of lyon in france , held in the summer of 1274 .
there , according to bower , he died -lrb- of unspecified causes -rrb- ; bower on this occasion calls him `` magister matthaeus episcopus rossensis '' , `` master matthew bishop of ross '' rather than `` macchabeus '' .
whether or not bower 's claim about his death at lyons is true , the bishopric was certainly vacant by the following christmas .
