Andrew McLellan
Andrew Rankin Cowie McLellan CBE is a minister in the Church of Scotland. He was Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland from 2002 to 2009.
He was educated at Kilmarnock Academy, Madras College (St Andrews), the University of St Andrews, the University of Glasgow and Union Theological Seminary, New York City, USA.
He was Assistant Minister at St George's West Church, Edinburgh, 1969-1971. Thereafter, he was Minister at Cartsburn Augustine Church, Greenock (1971–1980) (and was also an elected member of Inverclyde District Council 1977-1980), Viewfield Parish Church, Stirling (1980–1986) and St Andrew's and St George's Church, Edinburgh (1986–2002). He was Convener of the Church of Scotland's Church and Nation Committee 1992-1996 its Parish Development Fund 2002 - 2006, and its World Mission Council 2011-2014; and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 2000. He is also author of several books.
He is married to Irene and has twin sons Andi and Ian. He now lives in Dunfermline. His formal title (following the end of his Moderatorial year) is the Very Reverend Dr Andrew McLellan.
McLellan was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.[1]
He was the chairman of what became known as the McLellan Commission into a range of safeguarding initiatives for the Scottish Catholic Church. This commission was announced by Scotland's Catholic Bishops, known as the Bishops' Conference of Scotland, in November 2013; it published its report, the McLellan Report, on 18 August 2015. The commission investigated child sex abuse by Scotland's priests, acknowledging in section 2.1 of the Report that "There is no doubt that abuse of the most serious kind has taken place within the Catholic Church in Scotland", and the Church's responses.[2] The Report was criticised by one journalist as "a whitewash ... So soft and fluffy ... that it should have been delivered with a big pink ribbon tied around it and pictures of Walt Disney characters on its cover".[3] The same newspaper, however, also said 'McLellan had promised a report that was neither timid nor deferential. He delivered it' [4] Another Press response to the Report was "It is a masterpiece of its kind that deserves to be studied wherever there are similar issues".[5]
Footnotes
- ^ "No. 59090". The London Gazette (invalid
|supp=(help)). 13 June 2009. - ^ The McLellan Commission Web site, with the Report
- ^ The Observer newspaper:The Catholic church must think upon its sins, Kevin McKenna, 6 September 2015
- ^ The Observer. Catherine Deveney. 23 August 2015
- ^ The Tablet editorial, 20 August 2015
See also
- Church of Scotland
- List of Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
- Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons (England and Wales)
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