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Moderators Of The General Assembly Of The Church Of Scotland
List of Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is a complete list of Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from the Reformation to the present day. Some listed below also currently have their own article. The location of the parish or other post during the Moderator's year in office is also listed (in brackets). Since 1714 the General Assembly has normally been held annually every May. Moderators-designate are nominated in the October of the previous year; a formal vote is taken at start of the General Assembly (in May), then the new Moderator takes the chair. He/she holds office for one year; his/her final act is to formally open the following year's General Assembly and preside over the formal election of a successor. The Moderator of the current year (while serving their term as Moderator) is styled ''"The Right Reverend"'', while past Moderators are styled ''"The Very Reverend"''. 16th century *1562 ''(June)'' and 1568 ''(Dec)'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moderator Of The General Assembly Of The Church Of Scotland
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is the minister or elder chosen to moderate (chair) the annual General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, which is held for a week in Edinburgh every year. After chairing the Assembly, the Moderator then spends the following year representing the Church of Scotland at civic events, and visiting congregations and projects in Scotland and beyond. Because the Church of Scotland is Scotland's national church, and a presbyterian church has no bishops, the Moderator is – arguably alongside the Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland – the most prominent figure in the life of Church of Scotland adherents. Office The moderator is normally a minister or elder of considerable experience and held in high esteem in the Church of Scotland. The moderator is nominated by the "Committee to Nominate the Moderator", which consists of fifteen people elected annually by the General Assembly. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lindsay (bishop Of Ross)
David Lindsay (1531–1613) was one of the twelve original ministers nominated to the "chief places in Scotland" in 1560. In 1589 as one of the recognised leaders of the Kirk and as chaplain of James VI of Scotland, Lindsay accompanied James to Norway to fetch home his bride. He was appointed bishop of Ross and a privy councillor in 1600. He was five times Moderator of the General Assembly: 1577, 1582, 1586, 1593 and 1597. Biography Lindsay was the son of Alexander Lindsay and Rachel Barclay, and nephew of David, ninth Earl of Crawford. He was said to have been a student of the University of St Andrews, though his name does not appear as such in any of the university records. He appears to have been an associate of John Knox in Geneva. During travels in France and Switzerland Lindsay imbibed Reformation principles, and he was one of the twelve original ministers nominated in July 1560 to the "chief places in Scotland", the town assigned him being Leith. He was present in Decem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Andrews
St Andrews ( la, S. Andrea(s); sco, Saunt Aundraes; gd, Cill Rìmhinn) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and northeast of Edinburgh. St Andrews had a recorded population of 16,800 , making it Fife's fourth-largest settlement and List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, 45th most populous settlement in Scotland. The town is home to the University of St Andrews, the third oldest university in the English-speaking world and the oldest in Scotland. It was ranked as the best university in the UK by the 2022 Good University Guide, which is published by ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times''. According to other rankings, it is ranked as one of the best universities in the United Kingdom. The town is named after Andrew the Apostle, Saint Andrew the Twelve apostles, Apostle. The settlement grew to the west of St Andrew's Cathedral, St Andrews, St Andrews Cathedral, with the southern side of the Scores to the north and the Kinness Burn t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hamilton (1572 Moderator)
Robert Hamilton (c.1530–1581) was a Church of Scotland minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1572 and was Principal of New College in St Andrews. Life Little is known of his early life. He was probably born around 1530 in eastern central Scotland. He is first mentioned in the first General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in December 1560 where he is minuted as being "maist (most) qualified for ministering and teaching". From at least 1560 he was a Regent of New College in St Andrews (now known as St Mary's College, St Andrews) which means this is certainly where he studied. As a Regent he would lecture in Divinity to the younger students. From around 1570 he was Principal of the College. At some time between November 1565 and September 1566 he became minister of St Andrews Parish Church, in place of Christopher Goodman. This was one of the most important ecclesiastical positions in Scotland. In 1572 he succeeded Gilbert Gardin of Fordyce, Aberdeens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fordyce, Banffshire
Fordyce is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland that is slightly inland from the point where the Burn of Fordyce meets the sea between Cullen and Portsoy. It has existed since at least the 13th century. In 1990, Charles McKean wrote that Fordyce was "a sheer delight to discover, concealed as it is from the passing eye by hills and rolling countryside". The Kirkton of Fordyce was erected into a Burgh of Barony in 1499 by Bishop William Elphinstone of Aberdeen. Fordyce Parish Church, a fair distance from the village centre, dates to 1804. Its predecessor, St Talorgan Parish Church, has a belfry dating to 1661. Fordyce Castle Fordyce Castle, a T-plan structure built in 1592 and extended in 1700, lies in the centre of the village. Fordyce Academy Until 1964, the village had a notable secondary school called Fordyce Academy, which although small achieved high standards. Old boys of the school included the physicist and meteorologist Alexander Geddes, the zoologist William Dawson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Garden
Gilbert Garden (also known as Gardin or Gardyn) was a 16th-century Church of Scotland minister immediately after the Reformation, who served as Moderator of the General Assembly in August 1571. Life He was born and/or raised in Boath near Carmyllie in Forfarshire. From 1563 to 1565 he was minister of Monikie. In 1565 he became minister of Monifieth. In July 1568 he was presented by King James VI to the congregation of Fordyce, the principal Presbytery of the area, and translated as minister of the parish church in February 1569. In August 1571 he succeeded George Hay as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland the highest position in the Scottish church. This Assembly met in Stirling. In 1595 he translated to Cullen for a year before returning to Fordyce. As his position at Fordyce was filled by Patrick Darg in 1599 Garden must be presumed dead in or before 1599.Fasti Ecclesiastae Scoticana by Hew Scott Family His wife Margaret died in April 1592 aged 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rathven
Rathven ( sco, Raffin) is an ecclesiastical parish, village and former civil parish in the historic county of Banff, now in Moray, Scotland. The civil parish was last used as a census subdivision in 2001 when the population was 12,378, The former burgh of Buckie is the largest settlement in the parish, which also includes Findochty and Portknockie. Churches A medieval church dedicated to St Peter was built before the Reformation. The Rannas Aisle of 1612 is all that remains of the early church. This was built by the Hays of Rannas. In 1224 a John Bisset, linked to the church, built a leper hospital. This was converted into a Bedesman Hospital. At the time of the Reformation the church was under the control of St Mary's Collegiate Church in Cullen.Fasti ecclesiastae Scoticana by Hew Scott The Roman Catholic St Peter's Church is in the town of Buckie. It is sometimes inaccurately referred to as a cathedral. St Gregory's Church, Preshome and St Ninian's Church, Tynet are serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hay (minister)
George Hay (c.1530–1588) was a Church of Scotland minister immediately after the Reformation, who served as Moderator of the General Assembly from March 1571. Life He was born around 1539 a younger son of William Hay 5th Laird of Talla near Tweedsmuir, and his wife Janet Spottiswood, a sister or close cousin of John Spottiswood. In the earliest years of the Reformation (July 1558) he is mentioned as "Rector of Rathven". He was certainly a Roman Catholic priest pre-Reformation, having been granted a dispensation from Pope Paul IV allowing him a joint benefice from both Rathven and "Eddleston", showing that he was serving both these communities. If this "Eddleston" is the same the Eddleston of the Scottish Borders this is a very considerable journey in the 16th century. In January 1560 he granted "kirk lands" at Rathven and Eddleston to his brother William Hay of Barro. In October 1561, in the study of James McGill in Edinburgh, Hay was one of the group of clergy who jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Parish Church Of St Cuthbert
The Parish Church of St Cuthbert is a parish church of the Church of Scotland in central Edinburgh. Probably founded in the 7th century, the church once covered an extensive parish around the burgh of Edinburgh. The church's current building was designed by Hippolyte Blanc and completed in 1894. St Cuthbert's is situated within a large churchyard that bounds Princes Street Gardens and Lothian Road. A church was probably founded on this site during or shortly after the life of Cuthbert. The church is first recorded in 1128, when David I granted it to Holyrood Abbey. At that time, the church covered an extensive parish, which was gradually reduced until the 20th century by the erection and expansion of other parishes, many of which were founded as chapels of ease of St Cuthbert's. St Cuthbert's became a Protestant church at the Scottish Reformation in 1560: from after the Reformation until the 19th century, the church was usually called the West Kirk. After the Restoration in 1660 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Pont
Robert Pont (the abbreviated form of Kylpont or Kynpont) (1529–1606) was a Church of Scotland minister, judge and reformer. He was a church minister and commissioner and a Senator of the College of Justice. His translation of the Helvetian Confession was ordered to be printed by the General Assembly. Pont's legal skill allowed him to be made Provost of Trinity College, and through the influence of Morton, but with the consent of the Assembly, he accepted a seat in the Court of Session in 1572. Working for the church he assisted in the preparation of the Second Book of Discipline. He protested so prominently against the Black Acts that he was compelled for a time to take refuge in England. On returning with Angus and other Protestant Lords, he resumed his ministerial duty at St. Cuthbert's. Among other writings, he prepared for the Assembly three sermons against sacrilege and also published also a revised edition of the Psalms, and a Latin treatise on the "Union of the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edinburgh
Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth. Edinburgh is Scotland's List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, second-most populous city, after Glasgow, and the List of cities in the United Kingdom, seventh-most populous city in the United Kingdom. Recognised as the capital of Scotland since at least the 15th century, Edinburgh is the seat of the Scottish Government, the Scottish Parliament and the Courts of Scotland, highest courts in Scotland. The city's Holyrood Palace, Palace of Holyroodhouse is the official residence of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, British monarchy in Scotland. The city has long been a centre of education, particularly in the fields of medicine, Scots law, Scottish law, literature, philosophy, the sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Craig (minister)
John Craig ( – 12 December 1600) was a Protestant Reformers, Reformer, and colleague of John Knox. Originally a Dominican Order, Dominican, he became a Church of Scotland minister with significant extra responsibilities and played an influential part in the Scottish Reformation. Craig was educated at the University of St Andrews, St. Andrews, and, going afterwards to England, became tutor in the family of William Dacre, 3rd Baron Dacre, Lord Dacre. He entered the order of Dominican Friars at Bologna, where he was appointed Novice master, Master of Novices and of which he served as Rector (ecclesiastical)#Roman Catholic Church, rector for several years. His role gave him access to read the Papally-censored works of John Calvin and on reading The Institutes of the Christian Religion, The Institutes, Craig accepted their teachings. For this he was condemned by the Inquisition and sentenced to be burned for heresy in August, 1559 but escaped from jail at Rome. Returning, via Vienna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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