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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 ...
Iain Donald Campbell was born on 20 September 1963 on the Isle of Lewis to John Norman Campbell and his wife Lily Maciver (née Mackenzie). Campbell had two sisters, Margaret and Alma. [ 4 ] Campbell attended the Nicolson Institute , a school on Lewis , before studying at the University of Glasgow , where he graduated with First Class Honours ...
Sinclair Buchanan Ferguson (born 21 February 1948) is a Scottish theologian known in Reformed Christian circles for his teaching, writing, and editorial work. He has been Chancellor's Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary since 2017, [1] commuting from Scotland, where he was an assistant minister at St. Peter's Free Church of Scotland, Dundee.
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 ...
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.
The King's Household in Scotland (Ecclesiastical) consists of chaplains who are all ministers of the Church of Scotland. [ 52 ] The current Dean of the Chapel Royal (since 2019) is Professor David Fergusson , who was also appointed Dean of the Thistle at the same time.
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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 ...