Clement Bishop Pulpit Carving On History Visit To The Cathedral Dunblane Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of the Clement Bishop Pulpit Carving on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Cathedral in Dunblane. Clement, who died in 1258, was a 13th century Dominican friar who was the first member of the Dominican Order in Britain and Ireland to become a bishop. In 1233, he was selected to lead the ailing diocese of Dunblane in Scotland, and faced a struggle to bring the bishopric of Dunblane, or "bishopric of Strathearn, to financial viability. This involved many negotiations with the powerful religious institutions and secular authorities which had acquired control of the revenue that would normally have been the entitlement of Clement's bishopric. The negotiations proved difficult, forcing Clement to visit the papal court in Rome. While not achieving all of his aims, Clement succeeded in saving the bishopric from relocation to Inchaffray Abbey. He also regained enough revenue to begin work on the new Dunblane Cathedral. Bishop Clement proved to be a success, raising enough funds to rebuild Dunblane Cathedral and to secure the future of the bishopric. In the mid 1240s Clement was asked to perform a similar financial and administrative turnaround for the Bishopric of Argyll. Clement died in 1258, probably on 19 March. He was later commemorated as a Saint, though no official record of his canonisation remains. He is primarily remembered for the legacy he left in Dunblane, in particular for the magnificent cathedral he built there. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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