Explore: Kirk Session

through a ruling body called the Kirk session (Latin. sessio from sedere "to sit"), sometimes the Session, church session, or (in Continental Reformed usage)

own literature. The Kirk of Scotland was in official use as the name of the Church of Scotland until the 17th century. Kirk Session is still the standard

trained elders may also moderate Kirk Sessions. The moderator is answerable to the presbytery, not to the kirk session, for his or her conduct in the court

Twenty years after the date of the execution, Kirkinner and Penninghame Kirk Session prepared two accounts that drew on stories collected from individuals

The minister is styled as a "teaching elder", the other members of Kirk Session are known as "ruling elders". All elders are ordained, and the ordination

On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk, an American right-wing political activist, was fatally shot while addressing an audience on the campus of Utah Valley

Giles' Cathedral (Scottish Gaelic: Cathair-eaglais Naomh Giles), or the High Kirk of Edinburgh, is one of the three cathedrals in Edinburgh, Scotland. The

was the same. Time spent in the bridle was normally allocated by the kirk session or a local magistrate. Quaker women were sometimes punished with the

Scotland's Model Constitution (with a kirk session and congregational board) or Unitary Congregation (with just a kirk session). Most of the Free Church congregations

the monumental sculptor Richard Kindersley. It was commissioned by the Kirk Session as the cathedral's commemoration and dedicated at a service on 12 March