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The Church of Scotland (CoS; Scots: The Kirk o Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Eaglais na h-Alba) is a Presbyterian denomination of Christianity that holds the status of the national church in Scotland. It is one of the country's largest, having 259,200 members in 2023.
The Church of Scotland has presbyteries outwith Scotland: these presbyteries have "gathered congregations" rather than parishes. What follows is a list of Church of Scotland parishes, congregations and places of worship. A complete list of parishes with statistical data will be found in the Church of Scotland Yearbook (known as the Red Book).
The Church of Scotland has a Presbyterian structure, which means it is organised under a hierarchy of courts. Traditionally there were four levels of courts: the Kirk Session (at congregational level), the Presbytery (at local area level), the Synod (at a regional level) and the General Assembly (the Church's highest court).
The new King has affirmed the independence of the Church of Scotland from Government as one of his first acts. King Charles III was formally declared head of state during a historic ceremony ...
As a Presbyterian church, the Church of Scotland is governed by courts of elders rather than by bishops.At the bottom of the hierarchy of courts is the Kirk Session, the court of the parish; representatives of Kirk Sessions form the Presbytery, the local area court.
On 1 October 2024 [1], almost all of the former parish churches in Orkney united to create a single Orkney Islands Church of Scotland staffed by a team ministry. It is part of the Church of Scotland's Presbytery of the North East and the Northern Isles ("NENI").
The St Andrew Declaration [8] emerged from the work of Our Common Calling Working Group of the Church of Scotland and the Scottish Episcopal Church [9] and was approved by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in May 2021 and by the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church in June 2021. Signed on 30 November 2021, this ...
The Ordination of Elders in a Scottish Kirk, painting by John Henry Lorimer, 1891 Alexander Webster, minister of the Tolbooth Kirk in St. Giles, Edinburgh and moderator of the Church of Scotland in 1753, was responsible for providing the first reliable estimate of Scotland's population in modern times. Based on returns from parish ministers ...