Peter Philip Brodie (22 October 1916 – 16 October 1996) was a Church of Scotland

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, most notably

Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is the ministers and elders of the Church of Scotland, minister or elder chosen to moderate (chair) the annual General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, which is held for a week i ...

from 1978 to 1979.

Life

He was born in Airdrie on 22 October 1916 the son of Robert and Margaret Brodie. He was educated at

Airdrie Academy Airdrie Academy is a secondary school within Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Admissions It has a current roll of approximately 1,100 pupils. As part of Education 2010, a new building was opened in October 2006 to replace the previous on ...

; Glasgow University and Trinity College, Glasgow. In 1940 he began as assistant to Rev Morrison at St Marys Church in

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. Following the death of Rev Morrison in 1941 he became minister, and served as such from 1942 to 1947. In the war he served in the Home Guard. In 1947 he was transferred to St Mungo's Church in Alloa and ministered there until 1987. In 1978 he succeeded Very Rev

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as Moderator of the General Assembly, the highest position within the Church of Scotland. He was succeeded in turn in 1979 by Very Rev Robert Barbour.

Family

He was married to Constance Lindsay Hope. They were parents to

Philip Brodie, Lord Brodie Philip Hope Brodie, Lord Brodie, (born 14 July 1950) is a Scottish lawyer and one of the Senators of the College of Justice, a Judge of Scotland's Supreme Courts. Early life He was born on 14 July 1950, the son of the late Very Rev Dr Peter ...

(b.1950). His son, Jonathan Brodie KC, became the Procurator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland on 1 June 2023. He had first attended the General Assembly in 1978 when his father, Peter Brodie, was Moderator.

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1916 births People educated at Airdrie Academy Alumni of the University of Glasgow 20th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1996 deaths British Home Guard soldiers {{UK-Christian-clergy-stub