The Church of Scotland (the "Kirk") is Scotland's national Presbyterian church, taking its settled Reformed form under John Knox and the 1560 Scots Confession, and adopting the Westminster Confession in 1647. The Kirk's confessional standard remains the Westminster Confession, but the present denomination ordains women, has authorized same-sex marriage in its congregations, and functions in practice as a liberal mainline Protestant body with nominal confessional subscription. AskCredo places the Church of Scotland in the C-tier: historically the standard-bearer of Scottish Reformed orthodoxy, now a confessionally mixed body whose public teaching has departed from the substance of its own confession.
Westminster Confession of Faith (nominally)
presbyterian
mixed
UK & Ireland · Founded 1560
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