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Alexander Hepburn (died 1578) was a 16th-century Scottish cleric. He was elected as bishop of Ross on 14 May 1574 following the Church of Scotland’s attempted forfeiture of the catholic bishop John Lesley.Hepburn obtained a royal confirmation with mandate for consecration on 20 March 1575 being admitted to the temporalities of the bishopric on 3 November; in the same year on 22 April the exiled Lesley had his provision renewed by the papacy.