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General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

May 2018

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2019

Jason Lingiah
Jason Lingiah*
Affiliation:
Minister, Moncrieff United Free Church of Scotland, Alloa
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Extract

The General Assembly met in Edinburgh from 19 to 25 May, with the Rt Revd Susan Brown BD DipMin, Chaplain in Ordinary and Minister of Dornoch in the Presbytery of Sutherland, installed as Moderator. Her appointment as Moderator fell on the fiftieth anniversary of Act XXV 1968 permitting the ordination of women to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament. This year's Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly was the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry.

Type
Synod Reports
Information
Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 2019 , pp. 79 - 82
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2019 

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References

1 In English law, ‘real property’.

2 Declaratory Act anent The Westminster Confession of Faith, which declares that ‘This Church no longer affirms’ various condemnations of Roman Catholicism contained in the text of the Confession.