Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Explained

Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation is a title given to books containing lists of ministers from the Church of Scotland. The original volumes covered all ministers of the Established Church of Scotland (before the union of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland in 1929). Volumes I-VII were published on a regional basis (by Synod), later volumes cover the whole of the Church of Scotland:

Volumes

• Vol. VIII: to 2 October 1929, and addenda and corrigenda. Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1950.
• Vol. IX: 2 October 1929 – 1954 ed. John Alexander Lamb. Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1961.
• Vol. X: 1955-75 ed. Donald Farquhar MacLeod MacDonald. Edinburgh, Saint Andrew Press, 1981.
• Vol. XI: 1976-99 ed. Finlay Angus John MacDonald, Edinburgh, T & T Clark, 2000.
• Vol. XII: 1999-2020 ed. for the Assembly Business Committee of the Church of Scotland by Roy M. Pinkerton, MA, DipCompPhil, FSAScot; Editorial Assistant Alison Murray, MA. Edinburgh, The Church of Scotland Assembly Business Committee, 2021.

Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi Ad Annum 1638 (revised edition, edited by D. E. R. Watt and A. L. Murray) was published by the Scottish Record Society (Edinburgh, 2003).

Volume I, Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale and Volume II, Synods of Merse and Teviotdale Dumfries & Galloway are now on line at Scottish Ministers and History https://web.archive.org/web/20131002023038/http://www.dwalker.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Map.htm.

External links

• https://archive.org/stream/fastiecclesiscot01scotuoft#page/n7/mode/2up Vol I. Synods of Lothian and Tweeddale.
• https://archive.org/stream/fastiecclesiaesc02scot#page/n9/mode/2up Volume II Synods of Merse and Teviotdale, Dumfries, and Galloway.
• https://archive.org/stream/fastiecclesiaesc03scot#page/n5/mode/2up Volume III Synods of Glasgow & Ayr
• https://archive.org/stream/fastiecclesiaesc04scot#page/n5/mode/2up Volume IV Synods of Argyll & Perth & Stirling
• https://archive.org/stream/fastiecclesiaesc05scot#page/n5/mode/2up Volume V Synods of Fife, Angus, and Mearns.
• https://archive.org/stream/fastiecclesiaesc06scot#page/n7/mode/2up Volume VI Synods of Aberdeen and Moray.
• Internet Archive copy Vol VII. Synods of Ross, Sutherland, Caithness, Glenelg, Orkney (includes the Isles), Shetland, the Church of Scotland in England, & Ireland.
• https://archive.org/stream/fastiecclesiaesc07scot#page/348/mode/2up Better Copy of Vol VII. Synods of Ross, Sutherland, Caithness, Glenelg, Orkney (includes the Isles), Shetland, the Church of Scotland in England, & Ireland.
• Digital General Index of Scottish Presbyterian Ministers: http://ecclegen.com/general-index-general-index/