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Scottish Episcopal Church (5 C, 22 P) Pages in category "Christian organisations based in Scotland" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
While the Bible is the basis of faith of the Church of Scotland, and the Westminster Confession of Faith is the subordinate standard, [22] [23] a request was presented to a General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for a statement explaining the historic Christian faith in jargon-free non-theological language. "God's Invitation" was prepared ...
1809 London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews (now known as the Church's Ministry Among Jewish People or CMJ) 1813 Wesleyan Missionary Society; 1817 General Baptist Missionary Society; 1823 Colonial and Continental Church Society; 1825 Church of Scotland Mission Boards; 1825 National Bible Society of Scotland; 1831 Trinitarian ...
17th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland (2 C, 124 P) 18th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland (171 P)
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 ...
Despite declining church attendances Evangelical missions continued in Scotland into the twentieth century. There were a series of initiatives connected with the re-united Church of Scotland between 1947 and 1956. These included "Christian Commandos" and the "Radio Missions" of 1950–52 using BBC Scotland.
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A complete list of parishes with statistical data will be found in the Church of Scotland Yearbook (known as the Red Book). See also List of Church of Scotland synods and presbyteries. In Scotland, at least 275 churches have closed since 1 January 2000, a decline of 15.6% in 21 years. MPC = medieval parish church, or the successor building to one.