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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 ...
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 ...
16th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland (1 C, 33 P) 17th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland (2 C, 124 P) 18th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland (171 P)
Finlay Macdonald (minister) Gilleasbuig Macmillan; Alan Main (minister) Bill McDonald (minister) A. T. B. McGowan; John McIntyre (theologian) William McKane; John Miller (minister) Peter Mills (RAF officer) William Morris (Church of Scotland minister) Angus Morrison (minister)
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 ...
It noted that from 1707 to the 1830s, Church of Scotland ministers and elders inherited wealth from familial relatives which were made on West Indian slave plantations and numerous church buildings (including Glasgow Cathedral) contain memorials to and accepted donations from individuals who profited from slavery. The report also noted that ...
Alexander Strachan (died 1607) was church of Scotland minister. [1] He was exiled following the General Assembly of Aberdeen for not retreating from his presbyterian principles. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
Pitt-Watson was ordained for the Church of Scotland in 1920. [3] He was minister of St. Mungo's Parish Church in Alloa church in central Scotland from 1929 to 1946. [ 4 ] During his time as Moderator he presented a Bible to Queen Elizabeth II at her coronation , saying, "Here is wisdom, this is the royal law, these are the lively Oracles of God."