Tradition Institution Christianity
Church of Scotland
National church of Scotland
- Dated from August 1560 CE
- Also called CoS, the Kirk
A path that branches,
meets and parts.
Schools and lineages
Attributed founding
Whom the records name as founder
What this means
An attribution, and a contested one in most traditions: it does not mean the tradition began fully formed, nor that later adherents accept the attribution.
Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Figures · 2
Begin with a figure
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 2 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
An affiliation recorded on a person is a third party’s record, often of one period of a life — not that person’s belief at every point in it.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Places · 6
Places and sites
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 6 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
A place that names a tradition may be a temple or a whole province. Either way it is not a count of believers, and not evidence of practice in every period.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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St Giles' Cathedral
Church of Scotland cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK -
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Glasgow Cathedral
Church in Glasgow, Scotland, UK -
St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall
Cathedral in Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland -
Dunblane Cathedral
Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland, UK
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Connections
How Church of Scotland connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 3
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- is part of Continental Reformed Protestantism part of the Calvinist tradition within Protestantism originating in continental Europe
- is part of Presbyterianism branch of Protestant Christianity using presbyterian church government and originating in the British Isles
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is part of Protestantism branch of Christianity that emerged following the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century in opposition to the Roman Catholic Church and rejects papal supremacy
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
4 statements on this record
- 4 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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