Elisaeus Adougan was a late 14th century and early 15th century Scottish

Kingdom of Scotland

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 cleric. His name has been said to have occurred for the first time in a papal letter datable to November 25, 1390, but this letter is simply a repetition of another addressed to him, dated August 2 of that year; both letters address him as the rector

Rector

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 of the parish church

Parish church

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 of Kirkmahoe, and authorise him to take up the position of provost

Provost (religion)

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 of the Collegiate Church

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In Christianity, a collegiate church is a church where the daily office of worship is maintained by a college of canons; a non-monastic, or "secular" community of clergy, organised as a self-governing corporate body, which may be presided over by a dean or provost...

 of Lincluden providing he resigned Kirkmahoe within a period of two years.

This Collegiate Church, previously a Benedictine

Benedictine

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 nunnery, was erected only on May 7, 1389, after a petition of Archibald Douglas ("the Grim"), Lord of Galloway, to Avignon Pope Clement VII. Papal authorisation came in a letter to the Bishop of Glasgow, inside whose diocese Lincluden lay, which stated:

...as is contained in the petition of Archibald, Lord of Galloway, his predecessors founded and built the monastery of Lincluden, O. CLUN., ... and endowed it for the maintenance of eight or nine nuns, to be ruled by a prioress, while right of patronage remained with the lords of Galloway ...

The letter goes into the details of the monastery's problems and decline, details provided to the papacy by the Lord of Galloway, and asks Bishop Walter Wardlaw

Walter Wardlaw

Walter Wardlaw was a 14th century bishop of Glasgow. He was the son of a Sir Henry Wardlaw of Torry, a middling knight of Fife. Before becoming bishop, Walter was a canon of Glasgow, a Master of Theology and archdeacon of Lothian. He was at the University of Paris, and a roll of the year 1349 has...

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to ascertain that these facts be true and having transferred the nuns to a house of the Cluniac or Benedictine order, to erect the collegiate church and hospice ...

He still held both Lincluden and Kirkmahoe on May 17, 1391, when the Pope wrote to him providing him to a canonry and prebend of Glasgow Cathedral

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Elisaeus retained his position as provost of Lincluden until 1406. In that year he was elected and received papal provision to the vacant diocese of Galloway

Diocese of Galloway

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. This election was ascribed by historian Michael Brown

Michael Brown (historian)

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 to the influence of the Lord of Galloway, now Archibald Douglas II. In a lost MacDowall charter, witnessed by Robert Keith

Robert Keith (historian)

Robert Keith was a Scottish Episcopal bishop and historian.-Life:Born at Uras in Kincardineshire, Scotland, on 7 February 1681, he was the second son of Alexander Keith and Marjory Keith . He was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen between 1695 and 1699; graduating with an A.M...

 and datable to 1412, he was said to have been in his seventh year of consecration. Nothing more is known about Elisaeus's career as Bishop of Galloway

Bishop of Galloway

The Bishop of Galloway, also called the Bishop of Whithorn, was the eccesiastical head of the Diocese of Galloway, said to have been founded by Saint Ninian in the mid-5th century. The subsequent Anglo-Saxon bishopric was founded in the late 7th century or early 8th century, and the first known...

; the time of his death is not known either, but he died sometime before June 14, 1415, when there occurs the earliest evidence that a successor for Galloway was needed.