The bishop-elect of Dunkeld in Scotland has died two weeks before his ordination service that was due to occur on 27 April.

Only last week, Fr Martin had travelled to Lourdes on pilgrimage to pray for his new diocese. In a statement released 10 April, the diocesan administrator for Dunkeld, Canon Kevin Golden, announced the sad news:

“It is with deep regret and sorrow that I have to inform you that our Bishop Elect, Martin Chambers, died in his sleep last evening.”

Fr Martin was believed to be in good health and his death is a further blow to both his home diocese of Galloway and to the diocese and parishes of Dunkeld, which lost Bishop Stephen Robson to ill-health and early retirement in late December 2022, reports the Tablet.