User:Alekksandr/Superintendent

Presbyterian usage
The Church of Scotland's First Book of Discipline of 1560 provided for Scotland to be divided into ten dioceses with superintendents. They were: -


 * 1) Orkney
 * 2) Ross
 * 3) Argyll
 * 4) Aberdeen
 * 5) Brechin
 * 6) St Andrews
 * 7) Edinburgh
 * 8) Jedburgh
 * 9) Glasgow
 * 10) Dumfries

However, only five superintendents were ever appointed. They were: -


 * 1) Séon Carsuel - Argyll and the Isles
 * 2) John Erskine of Dun - Angus and Mearns - appointed while still a layman.
 * 3) John Spottiswood - Lothian - father of John Spottiswoode, Archbishop of St Andrews
 * 4) John Willock - the West
 * 5) John Winram - Fife and Strathearn