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2. William Arnot (minister) - Wikipedia

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   He three times visited America: in 1845, to minister in Canada; in 1870 as a delegate from the Free Church of Scotland to congratulate the presbyterian churches in the northern states on their reunion; and for the third time, in 1873, as a member of the Evangelical Alliance, to attend its meetings at New York. Having been a sympathiser with the ...

3. Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church - Wikipedia

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   Some ministers stayed in the Church of Scotland to work out their differences. By 1739, a Scottish Presbyterian pastor Ebenezer Erskine led a group of ministers to leave the Church of Scotland who formed a separate group, the Seceders, which again opposed the main group and had doctrinal differences. Ebenezer Erskine and his brother Ralph ...

4. John Witherspoon - Wikipedia

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   Witherspoon had been a prominent evangelical Presbyterian minister in Scotland before accepting the Princeton position. As the college's primary occupation at the time was training ministers, Witherspoon became a major leader of the early Presbyterian Church in America. He helped organize Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey.

5. George MacPherson Docherty - Wikipedia

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   George MacPherson Docherty (May 9, 1911 – November 27, 2008) was a Scottish-born American Presbyterian minister and principal initiator of the addition of the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States.

6. John Erskine (theologian) - Wikipedia

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   Extracts of letters (by E. Kent, Samuel Hopkins and Timothy Jones) from America, concerning the success of the gospel. Sent to a minister of the Church of Scotland [i.e. John Erskine], and published at his desire. Edinburgh 1766; Select Discourses from the Fourth Volume of the American Preacher [compiled by David Austin] ...

7. Ministers and elders of the Church of Scotland - Wikipedia

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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 ...

8. List of ordained Christian women - Wikipedia

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   Lorna Hood - minister in the Church of Scotland; Margaret Towner - first woman to be ordained a minister of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA) (1956) Rachel Henderlite - first woman to be ordained a pastor of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS) (1965) Katie Geneva Cannon - first African ...

9. Presbyterian Church (USA) - Wikipedia

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   Not all American Presbyterians participated in the creation of the PCUSA General Assembly because the divisions then occurring in the Church of Scotland were replicated in America. In 1751, Scottish Covenanters began sending ministers to America, and the Seceders were doing the same by 1753. In 1858, the majority of Covenanters and Seceders ...