Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae

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Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation is a title given to books containing lists of ministers from the Church of Scotland. The original volumes covered all ministers of the Established Church of Scotland (before the union of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland in 1929). Volumes I-VII were published on a regional basis (by Synod), later volumes cover the whole of the Church of Scotland:

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Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi Ad Annum 1638 (revised edition, edited by D. E. R. Watt and A. L. Murray) was published by the Scottish Record Society (Edinburgh, 2003).

Volume I, Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale and Volume II, Synods of Merse and Teviotdale Dumfries & Galloway are now on line at Scottish Ministers and History .


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