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- Whithorn (Scots pronunciation: [ˈʍɪthorn]; Scottish Gaelic: Taigh Mhàrtainn), is a royal burgh in the historic county of Wigtownshire in Dumfries and Galloway...
- Isle of Whithorn (Port Rosnait in Gaelic) is one of the most southerly villages and seaports in Scotland, lying on the coast north east of Burrow Head...
- The Prior of Whithorn was the head of the monastic community at Whithorn Priory, attached to the bishopric of Galloway at Whithorn. It was originally...
- The Bishop of Galloway, also called the Bishop of Whithorn, is the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Galloway, said to have been founded by Saint Ninian...
- Scotland, and as Trynnian in Northern England. Ninian's major shrine was at Whithorn in Galloway, where he is ****ociated with the Candida Casa (Latin for 'White...
- of Saint Aldwin[e]"), of Whithorn, was a native Galwegian who was the first Bishop of the resurrected Bishopric of Whithorn or Galloway. He was the first...
- Christian of Whithorn was Bishop of Whithorn (1154–1186), the second in****bent of that Episcopal See since it had been resurrected by King Fergus of Galloway...
- Isle of Whithorn Lifeboat Station was located at the village and seaport of Isle of Whithorn, sitting near the southern tip of the Machars peninsula, approximately...
- Whithorn Priory was a medieval Scottish monastery that also served as a cathedral, located at 6 Bruce Street in Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway...
- Heat****d of Whithorn is sometimes given as the Northumbrian Bishop of Whithorn (Latin: Candida Casa), following the demise of Bishop Beadwulf. He is possibly...