Aeneas Chisholm (vicar apostolic of the Highland District)

For the late-19th- and early-20th-century Roman Catholic bishop, see Aeneas Chisholm (bishop of Aberdeen).

The Right Reverend

Aeneas Chisholm
Vicar Apostolic of the Highland District
ChurchRoman Catholic
In office1814–1818
PredecessorJohn Chisholm
SuccessorRanald MacDonald
Other post(s)Titular Bishop of Diocaesarea in Palaestina (1804–1818)
Previous post(s)Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of the Highland District
(1804–1814)
Orders
Ordination1783
Consecration15 September 1805
by Alexander Cameron
Personal details
Born1759
Strathglass, Inverness-shire, Scotland
Died31 July 1818 (aged 58–59)
Lismore, Scotland

Aeneas Chisholm (1759–1818) was a Roman Catholic bishop who served as the Vicar Apostolic of the Highland District, Scotland.

Life

Born in Strathglass, Inverness in 1759, he was ordained a priest in 1783. In 1786 he was nominated prefect of studies in the Scots College, Douai. There, he transcribed 119 royal letters.[1] In 1789 he came home to the Catholic mission in Strathglass.

He was appointed the Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Highland District and Titular Bishop of Diocaesarea in Palaestina by the Holy See on 11 May 1804. He was consecrated to the Episcopate at the Lismore Seminary on 15 September 1805.

The principal consecrator was Bishop Alexander Cameron, Vicar Apostolic of the Lowland District. Following the death of his brother Bishop John Chisholm on 8 July 1814, Aeneas automatically succeeded as the Vicar Apostolic of Highland District.[2]

He died at Lismore on 31 July 1818, aged 59[3][4] and is buried there.[5]

References

  1. ^ https://calm.abdn.ac.uk/archives/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=SCA+CA%2F2 [bare URL]
  2. ^ Cooper, Thompson (1887). "Chisholm, Æneas" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. ^ Brady, W. Maziere (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Vol. 3. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace. p. 467.
  4. ^ "Bishop Aeneas Chisholm". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
  5. ^ https://www.clanchisholmsociety.org/public/bishops.php [bare URL]
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Vicar Apostolic of the Highland District
1814–1818 		Succeeded by


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