St Andrew's Church is the only congregation of the
Church of Scotland
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in
Portugal
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. It seeks to provide English-speaking Reformed Christian worship and pastoral care to a multinational community.
About
An English-speaking congregation was established in Lisbon by the
Free Church of Scotland in 1866; the present church building in Rua Arriaga in the historic Lapa district of
Lisbon
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was constructed in 1899.
The Church of Scotland services are conducted in English, but the building is also used by an
Orthodox
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congregation.
The majority of the congregations of the Free Church of Scotland united with the
United Presbyterian Church in 1900 creating the
United Free Church of Scotland
The United Free Church of Scotland (UF Church; gd, An Eaglais Shaor Aonaichte, sco, The Unitit Free Kirk o Scotland) is a Scottish Presbyterian denomination formed in 1900 by the union of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland (or UP) and ...
, which itself united with the
Church of Scotland
The Church of Scotland ( sco, The Kirk o Scotland; gd, Eaglais na h-Alba) is the national church in Scotland.
The Church of Scotland was principally shaped by John Knox, in the Scottish Reformation, Reformation of 1560, when it split from t ...
in 1929. The congregation was part of the Church of Scotland’s Presbytery of Spain & Portugal, which in 1974 became part of the Presbytery of Europe, which was renamed the
International Presbytery
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in 2016.
Services are held at 11.00 am every Sunday. As of late March 2013 the congregation is without a permanent minister; the previous minister was the Rev Graham McGeoch, who was ordained and inducted to the congregation in December 2009 and moved to Edinburgh in early 2013.
See also
*
Church of Scotland
The Church of Scotland ( sco, The Kirk o Scotland; gd, Eaglais na h-Alba) is the national church in Scotland.
The Church of Scotland was principally shaped by John Knox, in the Scottish Reformation, Reformation of 1560, when it split from t ...
*
St. George's Church (the
Church of England
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/
Anglican
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congregation in Lisbon)
References
External links
St Andrew’s Church, Lisbon - official website
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Church of Scotland churches
Churches in Lisbon
Presbyterian churches in Europe
Churches completed in 1899
Religious organizations established in 1866
1866 establishments in Portugal