John Gray was a Roman Catholic bishop

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 who served as the Vicar Apostolic of the Western District of Scotland.

Born in Buckie

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, Moray

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 on 16 June 1817, he was the son of William Gray and Joanna Gray (née Scott). He entered the Scots College

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 in Rome

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 on 30 September 1838, and took the oath

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 on 25 March 1839. He was ordained

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 a subdeacon

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 on 27 March 1841, a deacon

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 on 10 April 1841, and a priest

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 on 1 May 1841. He left the Scots College for the mission

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 in Scotland on 17 April 1843.

He was appointed the Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of the Western District and Titular Bishop

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 of Ipsus by the Holy See

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 on 6 May 1862, and consecrated

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 to the Episcopate

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 at St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow on 19 October 1862. The principal consecrator

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 was David Moriarty, Bishop of Ardfert and Aghadoe

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, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop James Kyle

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 and Bishop John Murdoch

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.

On the death of Bishop John Murdoch

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 on 15 December 1865, he automatically succeeded as the Vicar Apostolic of the Western District. The following year, James Lynch

James Lynch (Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin)

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 was appointed Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic to Bishop Gray on 31 August 1866.

Bishop Gray resigned as Vicar Apostolic of the Western District on 4 March 1869. However, he was not succeeded by Bishop Lynch

James Lynch (Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin)

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, who was relieved of his Scottish coadjutorship on 4 April 1869 and translated to the coadjutorship of Kildare and Leighlin

Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin

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 in Ireland on 13 April 1869, and eventually succeeded as bishop of that diocese on 5 March 1888. Instead, Bishop Gray was succeeded by Archbishop Charles Petre Eyre

Charles Petre Eyre

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, who was appointed Apostolic Administrator

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of the Western District on 16 April 1869.

Bishop Gray died on 14 January 1872, aged 54.