Matthew Ross is a minister of the

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, working (since 2018) for the

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. He was General Secretary of

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2014-2018. Between 1996 and 1998 he served as a probationer for the ministry at

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. In 1998 he was ordained a minister by the Church of Scotland'
Presbytery of St Andrews
The Rev Matthew Ross served as minister at

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and Springfield Parish Church, Fife, between 1998 and 2003. He was also a member of the Church of Scotland's Board of Practice and Procedure (1999-2003); he was appointed acting Depute Clerk to the

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in 2002-3. In 2003 he moved to

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to work as Executive Secretary of the Church and Society Commission of the

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; additionally, in 2009, he served as Moderator of the Church of Scotland's

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. He then returned to parish ministry in Scotland, serving at the Parishes of Cockpen and Carrington linked with Lasswade and Rosewell in Midlothian (2009-2014). He was a member of the Church of Scotland's Church and Society Council and Committee on Ecumenical Relations. In 2014 he was appointed to succeed Stephen Smyth as General Secretary of

(ACTS). In 2018 he left ACTS to work for the

(based in

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) as Programme Executive for Diakonia and Capacity Building.News report, World Council of Churches, August 2018
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External links

Action of Churches Together in Scotland

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ross, Matthew 20th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland 1967 births Living people 21st-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland Clergy from Dundee Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Glasgow