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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 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 ...
Robert Gordon FRSE (5 May 1786 – 21 October 1853) was a Scottish minister and author. Originally prominent in the Church of Scotland, and serving as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1841, following the Disruption of 1843 he joined the Free Church of Scotland and became a prominent figure in that church. [6]
The book set out a system of church order that included superintendents, ministers, doctors, elders and deacons. [8] It also contained a programme of parish-based reformation that would use the resources of the old church to pay a network of ministers, a parish based school system, university education and arrangements for poor relief.
David Fergusson or Ferguson (c. 1533 –23 April 1598) was a Scottish reformer and minister of the Church of Scotland. [2] He twice served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland: 1573 and 1578. He is said to have been a native of Dundee, though this is not certain. The date of his birth is also conjectural.
John Craig (c. 1512 – 12 December 1600) was a Reformer, and colleague of John Knox.Originally a Dominican, he became a Church of Scotland minister with significant extra responsibilities and played an influential part in the Scottish Reformation.
Nicoll was born in Lumsden, Aberdeenshire, the son of Rev. Harry Nicoll (1812–1891), a Free Church minister of Auchindoir, and his wife, Jane Robertson. [1]He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and graduated MA at the University of Aberdeen in 1870, and studied for the ministry at the Free Church Divinity Hall there until 1874, when he was ordained minister of the Free Church at ...
The Disruption of 1843, also known as the Great Disruption, [2] was a schism in 1843 [3] [4] in which 450 evangelical ministers broke away from the Church of Scotland [5] to form the Free Church of Scotland. [6] The main conflict was over whether the Church of Scotland or the British Government had the power to control clerical positions and ...