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Action of Churches Together in Scotland (ACTS) is an ecumenical grouping of churches and associated organisations founded in 1990. It is the successor to the former Scottish Council of Churches. Its offices are based at Scottish Churches House, Dunblane. The General Secretary is the Reverend Dr Kevin Franz. Dunblane is a small town in Perthshire, Scotland, near Stirling. ...
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The United Free Church of Scotland (or ‘U.F. Church’) was a Scottish Presbyterian denomination formed in 1900 by the union of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland (or U.P.) and the Free Church of Scotland, which in turn united with the Church of Scotland in 1929.
The United Presbyterian Church was formed in 1847 by a union of the United Secession and Relief Churches, both of which had earlier split from the Church of Scotland.
The second was the Church of Scotland (Properties and Endowments Act) of 1925, which transferred the secular endowment of the church to church commissioners.
Unlike the Church of England, the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church are elected.
Its dean (similar to an archdeacon in the Church of England) is appointed by the bishop, and, on the voidance of the see, summons the diocesan synod, at the instance of the primus, to choose a bishop.
On the refusal of the bishops to recognize William III (1689), the presbyterian polity was finally re-established in the Church of Scotland.
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