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	Church of Scotland - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Church of Scotland (CofS, known informally as The Kirk, Eaglais na h-Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is the national church of Scotland.
		The Church of Scotland was (and is) a firm opponent of nuclear weaponry.
		The Church of Scotland is Presbyterian in polity, and Reformed in theology.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Church_of_Scotland (3013 words)

	Synod information - Search.com
		In Orthodox churches, synods are composed of bishops and are the primary vehicle for the election of bishops and the establishment of inter-diocesan ecclesiastical laws.
		Synods in Eastern rite churches are simliar to synods in Orthodox churches.
		A diocesan synod is a non-permanent meeting of the clergy and laity of a particular church summoned by the diocesan bishop as an advisory council on legislative matters.
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	Church of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Church of Scotland was (and is) a firm opponent of nuclear weaponry.
		The Church of Scotland is Presbyterian in polity, and Reformed in theology.
		However, in the 1920s, the United Kingdom Parliament passed the Church of Scotland Act 1921, finally recognising the full independence of the Church in matters spiritual, and as a result of this the Kirk was able to unite with the United Free Church of Scotland in 1929.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Church_of_Scotland (2345 words)

	health List_of_Church_of_Scotland_synods_and_presbyteries - health-notes.com
		The Church of Scotland has a Presbyterian structure, which means it is organised under a hierarchy of courts.
		It is the presbyteries which have oversight of parishes and pastoral responsibility for parish ministers, and the Kirk Sessions of the individual parishes are subordinated to them.
		A parish minister is answerable to the Presbytery, not to the Kirk Session.
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	CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ALTERNATE GENIE SEARCH ENGINE, INC
		Although it is the national church, the Kirk is not a "state church", and in this, and other, regards is dissimilar to the Church_of_England (the established church in England).
		The Church played a leading role in the provision of universal education_in_Scotland (the first such provision in the world), largely due to its desire that all people should be able to read the Scripture.
		However, in the 1920s, the United_Kingdom_Parliament passed the Church_of_Scotland_Act_1921, finally recognising the full independence of the Church in matters spiritual, and as a result of this the Kirk was able to unite with the United Free Church of Scotland in 1929.
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	Church of Scotland
		The Church of Scotland (CofS; Scottish Gaelic: Eaglais na h-Alba), known informally by its pre-Union Scots name, The Kirk (of Scotland), is the national church of Scotland.
		The Church of Scotland Guild, historically the Kirk's women's movement, is still the largest voluntary organisation in Scotland.
		The Church played a leading role in the provision of universal education in Scotland (the first such provision in the modern world), largely due to its desire that all people should be able to read the Bible.
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	PRESBYTERIANISM - LoveToKnow Article on PRESBYTERIANISM
		The synod is a provincial council which consists of the ministers and representative elders from all the congregations within a specified number of presbyteries, in the same way as Th.~ d the presbytery is representative of a specified number e.VflO of congregations.
		The union was not perfect; the presbytery of Donegal was for three years in revolt against the synod; and in 1762 a second presbytery of Philadelphia was formed; but the strength of the synod increased rapidly and at the outbreak of the War of Independence it had 11 presbyteries and 132 ministers.
		Seminaries of the Southern Church are the Union Theological Seminary at Richmond, Virginia, and the Columbia Theological Seminary at Columbia, South Carolind, already mentioned, the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (1902) at Austin, Texas, the theological department in the Southwestern Presbyterian University at Clarksville, Tennessee, and, for negroes, Stillman Institute (1877), at Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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	Articles - Synod (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A synod (also known as a council) is a council of a church, usually a Christian church, convened to decide an issue of doctrine or administration.
		In the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, synods are composed of bishops.
		In some Presbyterian polities of church, a synod is a level of administration between the general assembly and the local presbytery.
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		The Church of Scotland was not alone in having a problem with the concept of a ‘church leader’ and the proposal was amended to allow churches to decide who would be their most appropriate representative at such meetings.
		Equally, the Church of Scotland, through the Panel on Doctrine, was itself engaged in a process of reflection on the doctrine and practice of baptism and produced reports in 2002 and 2003 which expressed the fruit of that process.
		For the Church of Scotland, catholicity is formally expressed in ‘the fundamental doctrines of the Catholic faith’ founded upon the reception of the Word of God, and as a reality particularly manifest where the ‘notes of the true Kirk’ are found.
	www.churchofscotlandextranet.org.uk /xga/downloads/gareports06ecumenical.txt (6771 words)

	Church of Scotland - Position in Scottish society, Governance and administration, History, Theology and practice, ...
		The national Church in Scotland, founded at the Reformation of 1560 under the leadership of John Knox.
		Presbyterian in its governing organization and discipline, laymen or elders (ordained) play a leading part with ministers in church courts at local, congregational level (in kirk session), district level (presbyteries, overseeing congregations in a given area), and in the General Assembly.
		Ministers (women and men), who are ordained by presbytery, are alone authorized to administer the sacraments of baptism (of infants as well as adults) and the Lord's Supper (communion).
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		The first breach in the established church came when a number of the persecuted Covenanters stayed out of the Church of Scotland at the Revolution, refusing to be a part of a church which did not continue to use the covenants, and declining to recognize the authority of a civil power which was not covenanted.
		In 1837 the parish of Marnoch, in the Presbytery of Strathbogie, fell vacant.
		The Synod of Moray found against the seven Moderates, declaring that admission to a pastoral charge was solely the jurisdiction of the courts of the church, and referred the case to the 1839 General Assembly.
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	Category:Church of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Church of Scotland is the National Church in Scotland.
		Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
		List of Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Church_of_Scotland (110 words)

	Extranet - Church Law
		The Church of Scotland adheres to the Scottish Reformation; receives the Word of God which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as its supreme rule of faith and life; and avows the fundamental doctrines of the Catholic faith founded thereupon.
		The principal subordinate standard of the Church of Scotland is the Westminster Confession of Faith approved by the General Assembly of 1647, containing the sum and substance of the Faith of the Reformed Church.
		This Church is in historical continuity with the Church of Scotland which was reformed in 1560, whose liberties were ratified in 1592, and for whose security provision was made in the Treaty of Union of 1707.
	www.churchofscotlandextranet.org.uk /xchurchlaw/xchurchlawarticles.htm (670 words)

	Church of Scotland Information
		The Church of Scotland (CofS, known informally as The Kirk) is the national church of Scotland.
		It is a Presbyterian church, decisively shaped by the Scottish Reformation.
		The Church of Scotland has around 1,400 active ministers, 1,200 congregations, and its membership at approximately 600,000 comprises about 12% of the population of Scotland.
	www.bookrags.com /Church_of_Scotland (2721 words)

	SYNOD FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Under the Roman Catholic Church the synod was originally mandated by the second Vatican Council's decree on the Bishops' Pastoral Office in the Church (n.5) The Pope serves as its president, determines its agenda, and can grant it deliberative power, if he so chooses.
		In most Anglican churches, there is a geographical hierarchy of synods, with "General_Synod" at the top; bishops, clergy and laity meet as "houses" within the synod.
		Reformed church of Zurich, Reformed church of Berne) the synod corresponds to the general_assembly of Presbyterian churches.
	www.witwib.com /synod (408 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		The Church of Scotland, the national church of Scotland, divides the country into presbyteries, which are subdivided into parishes, each served by a parish church usually with its own minister.
		In addition, the Church of Scotland has three presbyteries outwith Scotland: the Presbytery of England, the Presbytery of Europe and the Presbytery of Jerusalem.
		A complete list of parishes with statistical data will be found in the Church of Scotland Yearbook (known as the Red Book).
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	Church of Scotland information - Search.com
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		At that point, the church in Scotland broke with Rome and adopted Presbyterianism, in a process of Protestant reform led, among others, by John Knox.
		The 1638 National Covenant was signed by large numbers of Scots in protest at this, and was a factor in the strife between Kirk and King (the Bishops' Wars).
	www.search.com /reference/Church_of_Scotland (2561 words)

	GENUKI - Fife
		To help understand the many splits and reunions in the history of the Church of Scotland, this outline history diagram and notes, based on those originally compiled by Linda Merle, may be of assistance.
		Records of the Synods and Presbyteries are to be found in either the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh or the Manuscript Department of the
		Lists of all clergy in Scotland in 1865 can be found in the Ecclesiastical Directory of Scotland 1865, available on CD from Family History Scotland.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/sct/FIF (6645 words)

	Fair and Impartial Testimony...Against the Backslidings, Corruptions, Divisions, and Prevailing Evils... \| Christian ...
		When there is an indented list, either the first entry is of the same subject matter or the indented list that follows contains different subjects found on the same page.
		The list mainly follows the chronological sequence of pages and subjects found therein.
		Church elects officers; Acts 1:15, 23; 6:2; 8:14; 13:3; 14:23; 16:9; 1 Jn.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/willison/testimony.xi.html (513 words)

	Presbyterianism, Presbyterian
		The minister (or teaching elder), who is called by the local church and who usually serves as moderator of the session, is, however, ordained and disciplined by the next level of church organization, the presbytery (or classis), which administers groups of churches in one area.
		Presbyteries select delegates to regional synods, which in turn select representatives to the General Assembly (or General Synod), a national body, the final judiciary of the church.
		The discipline of the local church is not as rigorous as in Calvin's Geneva.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txc/presbyte.htm (722 words)

	Presbyterian Church -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		The Scots-Irish regarded doctrine as the basis of the church and strove for unqualified acceptance of the Westminster Confession.
		The church suffered a schism from 1741 to 1758 because of the religious revivals of the 18th century.
		It was formed through the union of the United Secession Church and the Relief Church, which had developed from groups that left the Church of Scotland in the 18th century.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9061275 (1508 words)

	An Explanation and Defence of the Terms of Communion. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When the church’s risen Lord, in virtue of having received all power in heaven and in earth, sent forth his disciples, in their public capacity, he authorized them to administer the seals of the new covenant, or testament, in his blood.
		This, necessarily, requires unanimity in all those things which belong to the constitution of the church in her organized capacity; such as, doctrines to be believed, a certain mode of worship to be observed a form of government to be exercised, and discipline to be administered.
		As it doth not appear that the church, in her complete and organized capacity, can exist without any of these articles, so neither is it easy to conceive how persons holding jarring sentiments on these important subjects can consistently enjoy church fellowship with each other.
	www.covenanter.org /RefPres/explanationanddefence.htm (10293 words)

	The Orthodox Presbyterian Church - Papers - Rev Richard Pot Online
		The sister church relationship expresses the closest degree of ecclesiastical fellowship between churches short of full union and carries with it serious responsibility for the exercise of both instruction and admonition, since the preaching ministry of either church is received by the other.
		It is seeking to establish a corresponding relationship with the African Evangelical Presbyterian Church, the Presbyterian Church in Uganda, the United Reformed Churches in North America, the Church of Christ in the Sudan Among the Tiv in Nigeria, and the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated).
		Churches must be considered able and willing to give a clear answer to the question of the Committee on Ecumenicity and Interchurch Relations whether or not the OPC shows the marks of the true Church as confessed in Article 29 of the Belgic Confession.
	www.geocities.com /r_e_pot/papers/opc.html (16562 words)

	CurryGuide web search results for: Presbyteries
		Listing of presbyteries and links to their Web sites.
		List of Church of Scotland synods and presbyteries - Wikiped...
		Traditionally there were four levels of courts: the Kirk Session (at congregational level), the Presbytery (at local area level), the Synod (at a regional
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	Synod - Christianity Knowledge Base - a Wikia wiki
		Synod - Christianity Knowledge Base - a Wikia wiki
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