Right Rev Henry Grey Graham

Born on March 8th 1874, the tenth and youngest child of Rev Manners H Graham, Minister of Maxton Kirk, Henry attended Broomhouse School and Kelso High School before going to St Andrews University where he gained an MA degree. He was inducted as Parish Minister of Avondale in Lanarkshire in 1901. He served there until 1903, when he was received into the Catholic Church at the Benedictine Abbey, Fort Augustus. He was inducted into the Priesthood in 1906 and became a Curate in Motherwell in 1907. He was installed as Parish Priest at Longriggend in 1916 and the following year became Auxiliary to the Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh. In 1930, he became Titular Bishop of Tipasa and Rector of Holy Cross, Crosshill, Glasgow. During this period, he wrote many articles for various journals about his view of the relationship between the Protestant and Catholic faiths, being one of the few people to have been in the position to have been both a Minister of the Church of Scotland and a Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He died on December 5th 1959.

[ Incidentally, Tipasa is a village on the coast of Algeria which is renowned for its ruins. Used by the Phoenicians from the 5th century BC, it later became a Roman town and was destroyed about the end of the 5th century AD. The ruins, including thermal baths, a cathedral and a Roman forum and theatre, have been designated a World Heritage Site.]

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