Examples of Church of Scotland in a sentence
We will only share someone’s personal data where we have a legal basis to do so, including for our legitimate interests within the Church of Scotland (either within the Presbytery or to enable central databases held within the Church Office at 121 George Street, Edinburgh to be maintained and kept up to date).
The Loyal and Dutiful Address of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland.
Church of Scotland congregations gather personal information from individuals and external organisations as well as generating a wide range of personal data, all of which is recorded in documents and records, both in hard copy and electronic form.
In cases where the authority has no discretion over the appointment (such as the Church of Scotland and Roman Catholic Church representatives on education committees) the authority should seek confirmation from the appointing authorities that they will require their appointees to comply with the Code.
One person interested in the promotion of religious education shall be nominated by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in terms of Section 124 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 as amended.
All Church of Scotland congregations contribute to the National Stipend Fund which bears the costs of all ministers' stipends and employer's contributions for national insurance, pension and housing and loan fund.
It is also interesting to note that at the end of 2013 first the Church of Scotland alone,38 then jointly with the Humanist Society of Scotland in January 2014,39 called for a change in the law to allow the statutory requirement for religious observance in schools to be renamed ‘Time for Reflection’.
It was founded in 1859 by the union of certain Presbyterian synods at that time organised within the British colony of Victoria, namely: the synod deriving from the Church of Scotland directly and others deriving from the Free Church of Scotland and the United Presbyterian Church.
If a minister takes up residence outwith the bounds of any Presbytery of the Free Church of Scotland, he shall remain under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery within whose bounds he last resided.
Since that time, the question of patronage and the relation of church and state have been the chief topics of agitation and irritation in the Church of Scotland and gave rise to a number of secessions; while the Westminster standards of faith and discipline have not undergone any essential alteration.The Reformed faith secured a partial success and toleration in Poland, Hungary, Transylvania, Bohemia and Moravia, but suffered severely by the Jesuitical reaction, especially in Bohemia.