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Rosemary Frew is a minister of the Church of Scotland, who is nominated to serve as the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for 2025–2026.. Since March 2017, she has served as the Minister for the parish of Bowden and Melrose in the Scottish Borders. [1]
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.
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[2] [3] Earlier General Assemblies had taken place in different churches in Scotland's major burghs. [4] The Church of Scotland General Assembly usually meets for a week of intensive deliberation once a year in May. Ministers, elders and deacons are eligible to be "Commissioners" to the General Assembly. Typically a parish minister would attend ...
From 2012 to 2016 she was convenor of the Church and Society Council of the Church of Scotland. Foster-Fulton took up a role with Christian Aid in 2017. [4] She was named as the Church of Scotland's next Moderator in October 2022, [2] and installed in office in May 2023 at the Church's annual General Assembly. She described herself as "beyond ...
John Chalmers, KHC is a minister of the Church of Scotland.From 2010 to 2017, he served as the Principal Clerk to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.In 2014, following the withdrawal of Angus Morrison on health grounds, [1] he was nominated to be Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for 2014–15; [2] he was duly formally elected as Moderator on the first day ...
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 ...