Abel de Gullane

Abel de Gullane
Bishop of St Andrews
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Diocese	St Andrews
Appointed	20 February 1254
Term ended	1 December 1254
Predecessor	Robert de Stuteville
Successor	Gamelin
Orders
Consecration	1 March 1254 by Pope Innocent IV
Personal details
Died	1 December 1254

Abel de Gullane [Golynn, Golin] was a 13th-century Bishop of St Andrews. He had been archdeacon of the diocese, and subsequently a Papal chaplain. In early 1254, after quashing the election of Robert de Stuteville, the Pope provided Abel to the bishopric, a decision not universally popular in Scotland. His first appearance back at St Andrews as bishop was on 29 June 1254, when he is recorded as celebrating the Papal mass. He died only a few months later, on 1 December.

References

• Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)