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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 ...
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]
David Patrick Thomson (17 May 1896 – 16 March 1974) was a minister of the Church of Scotland who followed a vocation in Christian evangelism as a student, a parish minister, a director of Residential Centres, and as a Christian author and publisher.
Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi Ad Annum 1638 (revised edition, edited by D. E. R. Watt and A. L. Murray) was published by the Scottish Record Society (Edinburgh, 2003). Volume I, Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale and Volume II, Synods of Merse and Teviotdale Dumfries & Galloway are now on line at Scottish Ministers and History .
The charge of Greyfriars continued with two ministers until 1840, when St John's Church, Victoria Street, was erected and the last minister of the second charge, Thomas Guthrie became the first minister of the new church. [3] New Greyfriars was erected in 1722 and occupied the western half of the kirk. It was a sole charge served by one ...
James Stuart Stewart (21 July 1896 – 1 July 1990) [1] was a minister of the Church of Scotland. He taught New Testament Language, Literature and Theology at the University of Edinburgh (New College). Educated at the High School of Dundee and the University of St Andrews from 1913, he took a first in classics (MA 1917).
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The church building on Infirmary Street. St Giles in the 18th century The grave of Very Rev James MacKnight, St Cuthberts Churchyard, Edinburgh. He was born on 17 September 1721 in the manse in Irvine in Ayrshire the son of Elizabeth Gemmill of Dalraith (d.1753) and her husband, Rev William Mackneight (sic) (d. 1750), the parish minister.