• The Church of Scotland Guild or simply The Guild (formerly known as the Woman's Guild), is a movement within the Church of Scotland. Historically it was...
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    The Church of Scotland (CoS; Scots: The Kirk o Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Eaglais na h-Alba) is a Presbyterian denomination of Christianity that holds...
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  • Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities, a network of European research universities The Guild, short common name of the Church of Scotland...
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    of the previous year Number of elders at the end of the previous year Membership numbers of the Church of Scotland Guild Parish's ordinary general income...
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  • Catherine Charteris (category Scottish philanthropists)
    University. The 'Woman's Guild' was founded in 1887 by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland on the initiative of her husband. Charteris acknowledged...
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    Margaret of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Naomh Maighréad; Scots: Saunt Marget, c. 1045 – 16 November 1093), also known as Margaret of Wessex, was Queen of Alba...
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    Blane's is a Church of Scotland church located in Dunblane, Scotland. The evangelical congregation is within the Church of Scotland's Presbytery of Stirling...
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    Aeneas Francon Williams (category 20th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland)
    Minister of the Church of Scotland, a Missionary, Chaplain, writer and a poet. Williams was a missionary in the Eastern Himalayas and China and writer of many...
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    William Guild (1586–1657) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister, academic and theological writer. He was the second son of Marjorie (born Donaldson) and...
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    General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. The city has long been a centre of education, particularly in the fields of medicine, Scottish law, literature...
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  • Davidson (1845 – 1925) was a Church of Scotland deaconess who was the first deputy of the Church of Scotland's Woman's Guild. Davidson was born in 1845...
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    rival guilds.[need quotation to verify], [need quotation to verify], [need quotation to verify] When Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic Church, he...
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    Abbey is a Church of Scotland parish church in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The church occupies the site of the ancient chancel and transepts of a large...
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  • Margery Sampson (category 20th-century Scottish women)
    Archdeaconry Society and The St Martin’s Guild of Church Bell-ringers in Birmingham. She went on to found the Ladies’ Guild of Bell-ringers, alongside others....
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    formerly met in St. Bride's Guild Hall in The Village district of East Kilbride. "Kilbride" itself means "Church of Bride" in Scottish Gaelic (the translation...
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    Red Mass (category Mass in the Catholic Church)
    since the mid-1920's. Its has been organized by The Thomas More Lawyers' Guild of Toronto on an annual basis since 1931. It was re-instituted in Sydney,...
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    Stirling (redirect from Stirling, Scotland)
    Stirlin; Scottish Gaelic: Sruighlea [ˈs̪t̪ɾuʝlə]) is a city in central Scotland, 26 miles (42 km) northeast of Glasgow and 37 miles (60 km) north-west of Edinburgh...
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    Margaret's Chapel Guild. Saint Margaret of Scotland (c. 1045 – 16 November 1093) was an English princess of the House of Wessex, the sister of Edgar Ætheling...
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    Dumfries (redirect from Dumfries, Scotland)
    built in 1792 and is the oldest working theatre in Scotland. The theatre is owned by the Guild of Players who bought it in 1959, thereby saving it from...
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    February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his...
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    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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    Parish Church of St Cuthbert is a parish church of the Church of Scotland in central Edinburgh. Probably founded in the 7th century, the church once covered...
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    Brechin (redirect from Brechin, Scotland)
    status as the seat of a pre-Reformation Roman Catholic diocese (which continues today as an episcopal seat of the Scottish Episcopal Church), but that status...
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    over the Scottish church, and by 1493 had overcome the last independent Lord of the Isles. Relations with England improved with the Treaty of Perpetual...
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    Cathedral (Scottish Gaelic: Cathair-eaglais Naomh Giles), or the High Kirk of Edinburgh, is a parish church of the Church of Scotland in the Old Town of Edinburgh...
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  • Life and Work is the editorially independent monthly magazine of the Church of Scotland. It was founded in 1879 by Archibald Hamilton Charteris. The first...
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    parish and township in the hundred of Amounderness and was granted a Guild Merchant charter in 1179, giving it the status of a market town. Textiles have been...
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    Ethel Douglas (category Elders of the Church of Scotland)
    (1970) in the Church of Scotland, in Greenside Parish Church, Edinburgh, and was president of the Guild. Born on 30 June 1916, to Agnes and James Douglas...
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    II of Scotland giving them the sole right to form a Guild. This body exercised power in the composition of the local council, and the affairs of the...
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    Place (Church of Scotland) St Matthew's Church, Tay Street (Church of Scotland) Kinnoull Parish Church, Dundee Road (Church of Scotland) St Leonard's-in-the-Fields...
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