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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 ...
Andrew Brown (minister) John Brown (moderator) Thomas Brown (minister of St John's, Glasgow) William Laurence Brown; John Bruce (minister) Alexander Brunton; Robert Buchanan (minister) Robert Buchanan (playwright) George Buist (minister) James Chalmers Burns; Thomas Burns (minister, born 1853) Amalric-Frédéric Buscarlet
Pages in category "18th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland" The following 171 pages are in this category, out of 171 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A statue was erected to Norman jnr. Cathedral Square, Glasgow showing him in the court dress of Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, over which he wears the Geneva gown of a Minister of that Church, with the hood of a Doctor of Divinity. He sports the badge of Dean of the Thistle. He is brandishing a Bible and raising ...
The Scottish Church Census of 2016 reported that just under 137,000 people worshipped on an average Sunday in a Church of Scotland, approximately 41% of the stated membership. [80] However, according to the 2024 Assembly Trustees Report, only 61,580 were attending an average Sunday worship service in person during 2023. [81]
William Henry Goold (15 December 1815 – 29 June 1897) was a Scottish minister of both the Reformed Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland. He was the last Moderator of the majority Reformed Presbyterian Church Synod before the union with the Free Church in 1876 when most of the R. P. congregations entered the union.
He was born in Glasgow around 1578 the son of the "reader" in Glasgow High Church. He studied at Glasgow University gaining an MA in 1599. [3] He worked as an assistant ("expectant") in the Merse near Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1602. In 1607 he was ordained as minister of Kirkintilloch. He translated to the High Kirk of Glasgow in 1612. [3]
His elder brother, James (1647–1726), minister successively of Carnbee (1678–81), New Machar in Aberdeenshire, Maryculter in Kincardineshire, and of Balmerino in Fife, became professor of divinity at King's College, Aberdeen, and was deprived in 1696 for refusing to sign the Westminster Confession of Faith. 'He seems to have shared his ...