{{Short description|Catholic bishop}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = | honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend | name = Colin MacPherson | honorific_suffix = | title = Bishop of Argyll and the Isles | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | church = Roman Catholic Church | archdiocese = | province = | metropolis = | diocese = | see = | appointed = 2 December 1968 | elected = | term = | enthroned = | began = | term_start = | quashed = | ended = 24 March 1990 | term_end = | predecessor = Stephen McGill | successor = Roderick Wright | opposed = | other_post = | ordination = 23 March 1940 | ordained_by = | consecration = 6 February 1969 | consecrated_by = Igino Eugenio Cardinale | cardinal = | rank = | created_cardinal_by = | birth_name = | birth_date = 5 August 1917 | birth_place = Lochboisdale, Scotland | baptised = | baptized = | death_date = 24 March 1990 (aged 72) | death_place = Oban, Scotland | buried = | nationality = | religion = | residence = | parents = | spouse = | children = | occupation = | previous_post = | profession = | alma_mater = | signature = | coat_of_arms = | motto = | resting_place_coordinates = | education = Propaganda College, Rome | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms_alt = | feast_day = | venerated = | saint_title = | beatified_date = | beatified_place = | beatified_by = | canonized_date = | canonized_place = | canonized_by = | attributes = | patronage = | shrine = | suppressed_date = | other = | module = | module2 = | retired = | laicized = }}{{Portal|Catholicism}} '''Colin Aloysius MacPherson''' (1917–1990) was a Scottish Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Bishop of Argyll and the Isles from 1968 to 1990.<ref name=chbmacp>{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bmacp|Bishop Colin Aloysius MacPherson|6 October 2010}}</ref>
== Life == He was born in Lochboisdale on the island of South Uist, Scotland on 5 August 1917. He trained for the priesthood at the Propaganda College in Rome and was ordained to the priesthood on 23 March 1940.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Johnson |first=Christine |title=Scottish Catholic Secular Clergy 1879-1989 |publisher=John Donald Publishers |year=1991 |isbn=0 85976 345 5 |location=Edinburgh |pages=132}}</ref> He was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles by the Holy See on 2 December 1968, and consecrated to the Episcopate on 6 February 1969. The principal consecrator was Igino Eugenio Cardinale, Titular Archbishop of Nepte, and the principal co-consecrators were Gordon Gray, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh and Stephen McGill, Bishop of Paisley.<ref name=chbmacp/>
He died in office on 24 March 1990, aged 72.<ref name=chbmacp/>
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