The General Assembly
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INTRODUCTION
The General Assembly, which meets each year in Edinburgh,
has the authority to make laws determining how the Church
of Scotland operates. It also is the highest court of
the Church (the other courts being the kirk session
and the presbytery) in which cases can be heard in matters
of litigation.
The 2008 General Assembly opened on Thursday 15 May
and closed on Wednesday 21 May 2008. The 2009 General
Assembly will open on Thursday
21 May 2009.
Highlights for 2008
Audio and video summaries of each day's proceedings are
available here.
You can also watch some of the highlights, including the
addresses by the Very Rev Sheilagh Kesting and the Prime
Minister, the Moderator's daily devotions and the Gaelic
service on our archive
page here.
The Moderator and the Lord High Commissioner
| The Rev David Lunan was appointed as Moderator of the General Assembly
at the Assembly's opening session on 15 May. Mr Lunan's biography is available here. |
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The Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of
the Church of Scotland 2008 was The Right Honourable George
Reid.
Special Commissions
A Special Commission on Structure and Change was set up in 2006 by the General
Assembly to identify and report on the effect of changes
to the structure and organisation of the Church, and its final
report was made to this year's General Assembly. The report included the recommendation that a Special Commission on the Third Article Declaratory be appointed.
Previous Assemblies
Click here to find out
about accessing our archived reports, minutes and daily
papers, daily audio news updates, podcasting service and
video highlights.
Act and regulations
The acts and regulations of the Church of Scotland which
were updated by decisions taken at the 2008 General Assembly
are available online on our
Remits to presbyteries and kirk sessions, and collated deliverances from 2008
You can download the complete remits to presbyteries and kirk sessions and the collated deliverances from this year's General Assembly below in pdf format*.
Background and history
Click here
for more information on the history and structure of the
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and a guide
to proceedings.
* To view PDF documents we recommend using Adobe Reader software, which is available to download for free from the Adobe website.
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