Although Gilbert (d.1245) does not have the official title of ‘saint’, he was a very important figure for the period in which we are interested. He started his priestly life in Moray. He may have encouraged the cult of St Duthac of Tain and himself worked many miracles. He succeeded Bishop Adam, who had been murdered, as bishop of Caithness in 1222/3. He built an episcopal palace at Burnside, Thurso and the cathedral at Dornoch, which was dedicated to St Finbarr. Gilbert had been given large tracts of Sutherland by a relative as a personal gift and presumably felt safer here than in the rebellious North. The bones of the murdered Bishop Adam were taken to the cathedral in 1239. Gilbert was an excellent administrator and set up a complex system of diocesan administration as well as dividing his diocese into parishes. A century after Gilbert’s death, the cathedral was dedicated to him.