| Description | This photograph shows a smiling Bishop MacPherson in a head and shoulders pose, standing in front of striped curtains, and wearing his pectoral crucifix; Bishop MacPherson was born in Lochboisdale, South Uist on 5th August 1917, the son of a schoolmaster; he was ordained a priest in Rome on 23rd March 1940 and was consecrated Bishop of Argyll and the Isles in St Columba's Cathedral, Oban on 6th February 1969, the first Gaelic-speaking island bishop since the Reformation; Bishop MacPherson died on 24th March 1990 aged 72, the day after the golden jubilee of his ordination. Full details of Bishop MacPherson's life can be read in his Obituary on pp 410 to 412 of The Catholic Directory for Scotland for 1991. |