The Church of Scotland was principally shaped by John Knox, in the Reformation of 1560, when it split from the Catholic Church and established itself as a church in the reformed tradition. The church is Calvinist Presbyterian, having no head of faith or leadership group and believing that God invited the church's adherents to worship Jesus.
- CoS
- John Knox
- 283,600 (2021)
- 1560 (Reformation Parliament), 462 years ago
La Iglesia de Escocia ( Church of Scotland en inglés, Eaglais na h-Alba en gaélico escocés, Kirk o Scotland en escocés germano ), de confesión presbiteriana, es la Iglesia oficial de Escocia. También es conocida de manera informal por su nombre en escocés: The Kirk. Su lema es « Nec tamen consumebatur »: Aun así no se consumía ( Éxodo 3,2 [1] ).
6 de feb. de 2023 · Church of Scotland, national church in Scotland, which accepted the Presbyterian faith during the 16th-century Reformation. According to tradition, the first Christian church in Scotland was founded about 400 by St. Ninian. In the 6th century, Irish missionaries included St. Columba, who settled at Iona about 563.
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The Church of Scotland is the national church of Scotland, established by law. It is Presbyterian. [1] The Presbyterian Church of Scotland is distinguished from the Anglican Church in a number of ways. It does not have bishops or archbishops; nor is the British monarch its head.
The Church of Scotland, the national church of Scotland, divides the country into Presbyteries, which in turn are subdivided into Parishes, each served by a parish church, usually with its own minister. Unions and readjustments may however result in a parish having more than one building, or several parishes sharing a minister.
The Free Church of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: An Eaglais Shaor, Scots: Free Kirk o Scotland) is an evangelical, Calvinist denomination in Scotland. It was historically part of the original Free Church of Scotland that remained outside the union with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in 1900.
Die Church of Scotland ist die einzige Institution Großbritanniens, über die das Parlament keine souveräne Gesetzgebungskraft hat. Ein Anschluss an die anglikanische Church of England wurde 1959 und 1971 von den Generalversammlungen abgelehnt. Formen, Gliederung und Leitung