Alexander Rose

The Right Reverend Alexander Rose
Bishop of Edinburgh
See	Diocese of Edinburgh
In office	1687–1689
Predecessor	John Paterson
Successor	Episcopacy abolished
Orders
Consecration	1687
Personal details
Born	1645 x 1146 Scotland
Died	20 March 1720 Canongate, Edinburgh
Previous post	Bishop of Moray Professor of Divinity, University of Glasgow; Principal of St Mary's College, St Andrews

Alexander Rose (1647–1720) was a Scottish scholar, minister and bishop. He was a Church of Scotland minister before becoming Professor of Divinity at the University of Glasgow and Principal of St Mary's College, St Andrews. He rose to become Bishop of Moray and then Bishop of Edinburgh. He was responsible for failing to convince King William III of England that the Scottish bishops could be trusted, leading to the abolition of Episcopacy in Scotland. Rose continued as a nonjuring bishop, eventually becoming leader of the informal and embryonic Scottish Episcopal Church.

Alexander was born in either 1645 or 1646, a year that can be calculated because we know that he was 74 years old at his death in March 1720. The Rose [Ross] family originally came from Kilravock near Inverness. His father had been Prior of Monymusk. He entered the University of Aberdeen for a Master of Arts, but moved to the University of Glasgow to study divinity under Dr. Gilbert Burnet, later Bishop of Salisbury.

Rose received his licence as a minister from the Presbytery of Glasgow on 20 April 1670. He became a minister at Perth in August 1672, but only after the town had unsuccessfully tried to secure the appointment of Alexander's uncle, Arthur Rose. He was ordained in the following October after the necessary trials. In 1682 Alexander became Professor of Divinity at Glasgow, almost certainly with the help of his uncle, now Archbishop of Glasgow. On 22 October 1686 he got a royal presentation to be principal of St Mary's College, St Andrews.

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