The Reformation split the Church into Catholic and Protestant factions, creating two roads to salvation - both of which claimed to be true. So it was very important to people that the Scottish state ...

Roman Catholics will be given the right to become lord high commissioner of the Church of Scotland general assembly.

In the First Book of Discipline of 1560, John Knox wrote his ideas for the new Reformed Church in Scotland. He wanted a number of changes: The new Protestant Church to gain the properties and ...

The equal rulers returned England to Protestant rule and began a new era of royal leadership defined by parliamentary oversight ...

After the death of James IV at the disastrous Battle of Flodden in 1513 Scotland once again had an infant Stewart king on the ...

From this the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United ... reducing the influence of the Church of Scotland. After years of division the religions of the United States were finally united under ...

This event sparked the Protestant Reformation movement, which led to the Church of Scotland, from which the Presbyterian Church (USA) has its origins. The Presbyterian Church is located at 838 ...

Cardinal Beaton instigated an inquisition-style regime against Protestant "heresy" at St Andrews- the centre of the Scottish Church. In 1528, Patrick Hamilton became Scotland's first Protestant ...