Type: | Bishop |
Honorific Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
Anthony Mitchell | |
Honorific Suffix: | DD |
Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney | |
Church: | Scottish Episcopal Church |
Elected: | 1912 |
Term: | 1912-1917 |
Retired: | --> |
Predecessor: | Rowland Ellis |
Successor: | Frederic Deane |
Ordination: | 1892 |
Consecration: | 1912 |
Birth Date: | 24 October 1868 |
Nationality: | Scot |
Parents: | John Mitchell |
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Anthony Mitchell (24 October 1868- 17 January 1917) was bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1912 to 1917.
He was ordained in 1892, after studying at the University of Aberdeen, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, the University of Edinburgh, and the Episcopal Theological College. In 1905 he became canon of St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, and was appointed Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney in 1912, a post he held until his death. In addition to his clerical work, he was a respected ecclesiastical historian.