Wikipedia's article on the Church of Scotland, community-edited. Reliable for the 1560 Reformation Parliament abolishing papal jurisdiction and approving the Scots Confession under John Knox's leadership, while leaving the church's own government unresolved between episcopal and presbyterian forms; for the November 1638 Glasgow General Assembly briefly abolishing the office of bishop and establishing the church on a Presbyterian basis; and for the Confession of Faith Ratification Act, passed by the Scottish Parliament on 7 June 1690 following the Glorious Revolution, which permanently settled Presbyterian church government as the polity of the Church of Scotland after the back-and-forth with episcopacy that followed 1560.
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Community-edited reference page, tier 3, covering well documented Scottish constitutional and church history. Used for the 1560 Scots Confession and the 1690 Ratification Act, both stated plainly in the article's own text; the 1638 assembly is named in this atlas's own prose as an intermediate, later-overturned step rather than the permanent settlement. NotesUsed for Presbyterianism's own establishment in Scotland, 1560 to 1690.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Scotland
Source Typereference
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This source names Church of Scotland directly: "Wikipedia's article on the Church of Scotland, community-edited."
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