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unusual facts about Scottish Episcopal Church



Battle of Killiecrankie

The Scottish Gaelic-speaking, mostly Catholic and Episcopalian Highlanders tended to stay loyal to the Stuart king James VII, while the English-speaking, mostly Presbyterian Lowlanders - who were the majority and held most of the political power in Scotland - tended to support William of Orange.

Bishop's House Iona

Bishop's House Iona was built in 1894, when Iona Abbey was still in ruins, to provide a place for Episcopalians on the island of Iona.

John Dowden

In 1886 was elected as the Anglican Bishop of Edinburgh, which position he held until his death in 1910.

National Archives of Scotland

The Churches Records for the Church of Scotland, Free Church of Scotland, and various dissenting ('seceding') congregations; records of the Scottish Episcopal Church; copies of the records of baptisms, marriages and burials for Roman Catholics before 1855.

Saint Ternan's Church

Saint Ternan's Church is an Episcopal church in the Diocese of Brechin, near Muchalls in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Sir William Keith, 4th Baronet

The Keiths were Episcopalian and of Jacobite sympathies, so much so that Keith resided with the exiled court of the Pretender, at Saint-Germain-en-Laye and there became one of the Pretender's favourites.


see also

Easson

Frederick Easson (1905–1988), Scottish Episcopal Church bishop of the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney in Scotland, United Kingdom