The Church of Scotland Yearbook (known informally as the ''Red Book'' because of its red binding) is a collection of
statistical data
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published annually by 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 Reformation of 1560, when it split from the Catholic Church ...
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It contains contact information for every minister, as well as contact details for the church offices, clerks, and general personnel.
It also contains congregational statistics for every parish in the Church of Scotland, and gives the following information:
*Number of communicants
*Number of elders
*Membership numbers of the
Church of Scotland Guild
*Parish's income
*Number of young people (under the age of eighteen)
Church of Scotland
Yearbooks
Social statistics data
Demographics of Scotland
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