Aberdeen - John Knox (quoad sacra) kirk session

A Church of Scotland quoad sacra parish. It sat within the presbytery of Aberdeen and synod of Aberdeen. The congregation originated in 1835. In 1843 the minister and most of the congregation left the established church to form John Knox Free Church. In 1880 John Knox was disjoined from Greyfriars, St Nicholas and St Machar and established as a quoad sacra parish.

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