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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 ...
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.
He translated to that parish in February 1736 and served as minister there for almost 50 years. [2] In 1758 he succeeded Rev Robert Walker as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland the highest position in the Scottish church. [3] He died in the manse at Moulin on 12 December 1785.
Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation is a title given to books containing lists of ministers from the Church of Scotland. The original volumes covered all ministers of the Established Church of Scotland (before the union of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of ...
The "Disruption" in the Church of Scotland took place in 1843, with approximately one-third of the ministers leaving to form the Free Church of Scotland. The Moderator in this critical year was Duncan Macfarlan (High Church of Glasgow) 1844 John Lee (Principal, University of Edinburgh) 1845 Alexander Hill (Professor of Divinity, University of ...
Duncan Shaw (minister, born 1925) Geoff Shaw (minister) R. H. W. Shepherd; James Simpson (minister) Thomas Smail; Leonard Small; George Washington Sprott; Alexander Stewart (moderator) Charles Stewart (minister) James Stewart (minister, born 1896) Matthew Stewart (moderator) William Storrar; Gordon Strachan (minister) Ian Strachan (minister ...
17th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland (2 C, 124 P) 18th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland (171 P) 19th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland (250 P)
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