Ecumenical relations in Scotland go from power to power

Ecumenical relations in Scotland are going from power to power following a historic assertion of friendship between the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland.

The Saint Ninian Declaration was signed yesterday at St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral and St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, each in Edinburgh.

It’s going to help additional friendship and cooperation between the 2 denominations.

Representatives from the Church of Scotland participated within the celebrations, which included a stroll between the 2 cathedrals through the Church of Scotland’s places of work on George Road, adopted by a service on the Episcopal Cathedral.

The assertion, named after the eighth-century missionary to what’s now Scotland, acknowledges that the connection between the church buildings “has not all the time been a cheerful one, even together with violence accomplished within the identify of faith; however we additionally see that there was friendship and cooperation prior to now.”

Most Reverend Leo Cushley, Archbishop and Metropolitan of St Andrews and Edinburgh, stated: “I am delighted to have the ability to be a part of a stroll that represents not solely the signing of a declaration of friendship between the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Catholic Church in Scotland but additionally to salute our buddies of the Church of Scotland, as we stroll between the 2 cathedrals and to have the ability to pray with them in a while and reveal to the remainder of the nation that Christians do stand collectively, and wish to be buddies and stay up for the longer term.”

Rev Fiona Smith, Principal Clerk of the Normal Meeting of the Church of Scotland, stated: “It was fantastic to welcome Archbishop Leo and Bishop Mark right here on the church places of work of the Church of Scotland as they have a good time the signing of the St Ninian Declaration with the identical pleasure and dedication that we on the Church of Scotland signed the St Andrew Declaration in 2021 and the St Margaret Declaration in 2022.”

Most Rev Mark Unusual, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, stated: “Coming down from the far north as I did from Caithness, I handed church buildings after church buildings and neighborhood after neighborhood served by us all around the centuries.

“If church buildings are divided why would anybody wish to consider in us?

“It could actually solely actually work after we are ready to sit down down and converse to one another.”

The Church of Scotland has entered right into a collection of Declarations with associate church buildings lately.

• The Columba Declaration with the Church of England (2016);
• The Saint Andrew Declaration with the Scottish Episcopal Church (2021)
• The Saint Margaret Declaration with the Catholic Bishops’ Convention of Scotland (2022).

On the Normal Meeting 2025, Rev Ross Blackman, convener of the Ecumenical Relations Committee, introduced the committee’s report which laid out a imaginative and prescient of the Church of Scotland as an energetic and important a part of the Catholic and Common Church.

Ecumenical relations in Scotland are going from power to power following a historic assertion of friendship between the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland.

The Saint Ninian Declaration was signed yesterday at St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral and St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, each in Edinburgh.

It’s going to help additional friendship and cooperation between the 2 denominations.

Representatives from the Church of Scotland participated within the celebrations, which included a stroll between the 2 cathedrals through the Church of Scotland’s places of work on George Road, adopted by a service on the Episcopal Cathedral.

The assertion, named after the eighth-century missionary to what’s now Scotland, acknowledges that the connection between the church buildings “has not all the time been a cheerful one, even together with violence accomplished within the identify of faith; however we additionally see that there was friendship and cooperation prior to now.”

Most Reverend Leo Cushley, Archbishop and Metropolitan of St Andrews and Edinburgh, stated: “I am delighted to have the ability to be a part of a stroll that represents not solely the signing of a declaration of friendship between the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Catholic Church in Scotland but additionally to salute our buddies of the Church of Scotland, as we stroll between the 2 cathedrals and to have the ability to pray with them in a while and reveal to the remainder of the nation that Christians do stand collectively, and wish to be buddies and stay up for the longer term.”

Rev Fiona Smith, Principal Clerk of the Normal Meeting of the Church of Scotland, stated: “It was fantastic to welcome Archbishop Leo and Bishop Mark right here on the church places of work of the Church of Scotland as they have a good time the signing of the St Ninian Declaration with the identical pleasure and dedication that we on the Church of Scotland signed the St Andrew Declaration in 2021 and the St Margaret Declaration in 2022.”

Most Rev Mark Unusual, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, stated: “Coming down from the far north as I did from Caithness, I handed church buildings after church buildings and neighborhood after neighborhood served by us all around the centuries.

“If church buildings are divided why would anybody wish to consider in us?

“It could actually solely actually work after we are ready to sit down down and converse to one another.”

The Church of Scotland has entered right into a collection of Declarations with associate church buildings lately.

• The Columba Declaration with the Church of England (2016);
• The Saint Andrew Declaration with the Scottish Episcopal Church (2021)
• The Saint Margaret Declaration with the Catholic Bishops’ Convention of Scotland (2022).

On the Normal Meeting 2025, Rev Ross Blackman, convener of the Ecumenical Relations Committee, introduced the committee’s report which laid out a imaginative and prescient of the Church of Scotland as an energetic and important a part of the Catholic and Common Church.

Ecumenical relations in Scotland are going from power to power following a historic assertion of friendship between the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland.

The Saint Ninian Declaration was signed yesterday at St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral and St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, each in Edinburgh.

It’s going to help additional friendship and cooperation between the 2 denominations.

Representatives from the Church of Scotland participated within the celebrations, which included a stroll between the 2 cathedrals through the Church of Scotland’s places of work on George Road, adopted by a service on the Episcopal Cathedral.

The assertion, named after the eighth-century missionary to what’s now Scotland, acknowledges that the connection between the church buildings “has not all the time been a cheerful one, even together with violence accomplished within the identify of faith; however we additionally see that there was friendship and cooperation prior to now.”

Most Reverend Leo Cushley, Archbishop and Metropolitan of St Andrews and Edinburgh, stated: “I am delighted to have the ability to be a part of a stroll that represents not solely the signing of a declaration of friendship between the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Catholic Church in Scotland but additionally to salute our buddies of the Church of Scotland, as we stroll between the 2 cathedrals and to have the ability to pray with them in a while and reveal to the remainder of the nation that Christians do stand collectively, and wish to be buddies and stay up for the longer term.”

Rev Fiona Smith, Principal Clerk of the Normal Meeting of the Church of Scotland, stated: “It was fantastic to welcome Archbishop Leo and Bishop Mark right here on the church places of work of the Church of Scotland as they have a good time the signing of the St Ninian Declaration with the identical pleasure and dedication that we on the Church of Scotland signed the St Andrew Declaration in 2021 and the St Margaret Declaration in 2022.”

Most Rev Mark Unusual, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, stated: “Coming down from the far north as I did from Caithness, I handed church buildings after church buildings and neighborhood after neighborhood served by us all around the centuries.

“If church buildings are divided why would anybody wish to consider in us?

“It could actually solely actually work after we are ready to sit down down and converse to one another.”

The Church of Scotland has entered right into a collection of Declarations with associate church buildings lately.

• The Columba Declaration with the Church of England (2016);
• The Saint Andrew Declaration with the Scottish Episcopal Church (2021)
• The Saint Margaret Declaration with the Catholic Bishops’ Convention of Scotland (2022).

On the Normal Meeting 2025, Rev Ross Blackman, convener of the Ecumenical Relations Committee, introduced the committee’s report which laid out a imaginative and prescient of the Church of Scotland as an energetic and important a part of the Catholic and Common Church.

Ecumenical relations in Scotland are going from power to power following a historic assertion of friendship between the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland.

The Saint Ninian Declaration was signed yesterday at St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral and St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, each in Edinburgh.

It’s going to help additional friendship and cooperation between the 2 denominations.

Representatives from the Church of Scotland participated within the celebrations, which included a stroll between the 2 cathedrals through the Church of Scotland’s places of work on George Road, adopted by a service on the Episcopal Cathedral.

The assertion, named after the eighth-century missionary to what’s now Scotland, acknowledges that the connection between the church buildings “has not all the time been a cheerful one, even together with violence accomplished within the identify of faith; however we additionally see that there was friendship and cooperation prior to now.”

Most Reverend Leo Cushley, Archbishop and Metropolitan of St Andrews and Edinburgh, stated: “I am delighted to have the ability to be a part of a stroll that represents not solely the signing of a declaration of friendship between the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Catholic Church in Scotland but additionally to salute our buddies of the Church of Scotland, as we stroll between the 2 cathedrals and to have the ability to pray with them in a while and reveal to the remainder of the nation that Christians do stand collectively, and wish to be buddies and stay up for the longer term.”

Rev Fiona Smith, Principal Clerk of the Normal Meeting of the Church of Scotland, stated: “It was fantastic to welcome Archbishop Leo and Bishop Mark right here on the church places of work of the Church of Scotland as they have a good time the signing of the St Ninian Declaration with the identical pleasure and dedication that we on the Church of Scotland signed the St Andrew Declaration in 2021 and the St Margaret Declaration in 2022.”

Most Rev Mark Unusual, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, stated: “Coming down from the far north as I did from Caithness, I handed church buildings after church buildings and neighborhood after neighborhood served by us all around the centuries.

“If church buildings are divided why would anybody wish to consider in us?

“It could actually solely actually work after we are ready to sit down down and converse to one another.”

The Church of Scotland has entered right into a collection of Declarations with associate church buildings lately.

• The Columba Declaration with the Church of England (2016);
• The Saint Andrew Declaration with the Scottish Episcopal Church (2021)
• The Saint Margaret Declaration with the Catholic Bishops’ Convention of Scotland (2022).

On the Normal Meeting 2025, Rev Ross Blackman, convener of the Ecumenical Relations Committee, introduced the committee’s report which laid out a imaginative and prescient of the Church of Scotland as an energetic and important a part of the Catholic and Common Church.