The Scottish Reformation was the process whereby Scotland broke away from the Catholic Church, and established the Protestant Church of Scotland. It forms...
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the Reformation in Scotland is a five-volume book written by the Scottish reformer, John Knox, between 1559 and 1566. In 1559 during the Scottish Reformation...
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The Scottish Reformation Parliament was the assembly elected in 1560 that passed legislation leading to the establishment of the Church of Scotland. These...
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The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century...
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Covenanters (redirect from Scottish Second Reformation)
Covenanters (Scottish Gaelic: Cùmhnantaich) were members of a 17th-century Scottish religious and political movement, who supported a Presbyterian Church...
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church. Scotland, Wales and Ireland were also closely tied to Roman Catholicism. During the 16th century, the English Reformation and the Scottish Reformation...
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Presbyterianism (redirect from Scottish Presbyterian)
ISBN 978-1-4128-2645-7. Last, because Scotland was a sovereign land in the sixteenth century, the Scottish Reformation came under the influence of John Knox...
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Mary, Queen of Scots (redirect from Queen Mary I of Scotland)
Scotland in August 1561. The tense religious and political climate following the Scottish Reformation that Mary encountered on her return to Scotland...
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being firmly established in Scotland for nearly a millennium, the Catholic Church was outlawed following the Scottish Reformation in 1560. Throughout the...
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Monarchy of the United Kingdom (redirect from Scottish monarch)
century, English and Scottish monarchs played a central role in what became the religious English Reformation and Scottish Reformation, and the English king...
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Protestantism (section Pre-Reformation)
Reformed denominations. The Scottish Reformation of 1560 decisively shaped the Church of Scotland. The Reformation in Scotland culminated ecclesiastically...
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the Hielands; Scottish Gaelic: a' Ghàidhealtachd [ə ˈɣɛːəl̪ˠt̪ʰəxk], lit. 'the place of the Gaels') is a historical region of Scotland.[failed verification]...
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Perth (Scottish English: [ˈpɛrθ] PERTH; Scottish Gaelic: Peairt [pʰɛrˠʃtʲ]) is a centrally located Scottish city, on the banks of the River Tay. It is...
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after the Scottish Reformation. Following the Revolution of 1688, the office was abolished in the Church of Scotland, but continued in the Scottish Episcopal...
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Bishopric of Dunkeld ceased to exist as a Catholic institution after the Scottish Reformation but continued as a royal institution into the 17th century. The diocese...
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mostly began with the English and Irish Reformations which were launched by King Henry VIII and the Scottish Reformation which was led by John Knox. Within...
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Copenhagen-based House of Oldenburg Reformation in Switzerland, the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, during the 1520s Scottish Reformation, part of the wider Protestant...
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The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England was forced by its monarchs and elites to break away from the authority...
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John Knox (category Scottish Reformation)
– 24 November 1572) was a Scottish minister, Reformed theologian, and writer who was a leader of the country's Reformation. He was the founder of the...
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History of Christianity in Britain (category History of Christianity in Scotland)
England. In Scotland, the (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland, established in a separate Scottish Reformation in the 16th century, is recognized as the national...
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Francis II of France (section Loss of Scotland)
Catholic cause. They were unable to help Catholics in Scotland against the progressing Scottish Reformation, however, and the Auld Alliance was dissolved. After...
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Mary of Guise (redirect from Mary of Guise, Queen of Scotland)
Protestant subjects, though she was ultimately unable to prevent the Scottish Reformation. Mary was born at Bar-le-Duc, Lorraine, the eldest daughter of Claude...
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Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's...
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The Kingdom of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Rìoghachd na h-Alba; Scots: Kinrick o Scotland, Norn: Kongungdum Skotland) was a sovereign state in northwest...
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Bishop of Galloway (section Pre-Reformation bishops)
formalised the admission of the diocese into the Scottish church on 26 August 1430 and just as all Scottish sees, Whithorn was to be accountable directly...
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Robert the Bruce (redirect from Robert I (Scotland))
claimants to the Scottish throne during the "Great Cause". As Earl of Carrick, Robert the Bruce supported his family's claim to the Scottish throne and took...
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denominations are found around the country. Before the Scottish Reformation, the Christian church in Scotland was Catholic. Its thirteen dioceses were each governed...
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in a shrine in Dunfermline Abbey in Fife, Scotland. Her relics were dispersed after the Scottish Reformation and subsequently lost. Mary, Queen of Scots...
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government Scottish Household Survey found that 20% of the Scottish population, or over one million people, identified the Church of Scotland as their religious...
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islands of the west to the Scottish Crown and in the mid-15th century Orkney and Shetland were also transferred to Scottish rule. The negative view of...
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