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Bishop of St. Andrews,Scotland. Born about 1406; died 10 May, 1466. Of the ancient house of Kennedy of Denure, he was a son of Lady Mary, daughter of King Robert III, and was therefore a cousin of James II, then reigning inScotland. After studying on the Continent, he was appointedBishop ofDunkeld in 1438, andAbbot of Scone soon afterwards, and in 1440 he succeeded Henry Wardlaw asBishop of St Andrews. Appointed chancellor in 1444, he showed himself a vigorous reformer of the civil andecclesiastical abuses rampant inScotland, and consequently incurred the enmity of many of the nobles. Kennedy soon resigned the chancellorship, finding it incompatible with hisecclesiasticalduties, to which he devoted himself with the greatest assiduity. Hiszeal for learning was shown by his foundation and munificentendowment, in 1450, of St. Salvator's College, St. Andrews, with the sanction and approval ofNicholas V andPius II. He introduced theFranciscan Observants into St. Andrews, in 1458; and he also built a vessel — described by his comtemporaries as "a vast ship of great burden" — for trading purposes, called the St. Salvator, which remained theproperty of thesee till 1472, when it was wrecked. At the death of James II, in 1460, Kennedy was chosen a regent of the kingdom, and exercised the office until his death five years later. The remains of his splendidtomb are still to be seen in the ruinedchapel of St. Salvator's. Kennedy was one of the most learned, wise, andpiousprelates of the ancient Scottish Church.
LYON, History of St. Andrews (Edinburgh, 1843), I, 218-230; Registr. Prior. S. Andreae (Edinburgh, 1841); LANG, St. Andrews (London. 1893); 79-86; LINDSAY OF PITSCOTTIE, Chronicles of Scotland, ed. DALYELL, (Edinburgh, 1814); CRAWFORD, Chancellors of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1864), II, 138, 196, an eloquent panegyric.
APA citation.Hunter-Blair, O.(1910).James Kennedy. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08616d.htm
MLA citation.Hunter-Blair, Oswald."James Kennedy."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 8.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1910.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08616d.htm>.
Transcription.This article was transcribed for New Advent by Joseph P. Thomas.Dedicated to the Catholics of Scotland.
Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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