Neither the place nor the date of John Knox's birth can be established with certainty. Giffordgate, a hamlet near Haddington, is the most likely site and somewhere between November 24, 1513, and November 24, 1514, is the most probable date. He was likely educated at St. Andrews, probably under the tutelage of John Major. He was ordained as a Catholic priest by the bishop of Dunblane in 1536
