Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
Phil: you are correct, but in this case, we are not talking about the C of E. We are talking about the Scottish Episcopal Church, which is its proper name in Scotland.

T.
That's right, Church of England, Scottish Epicopal church and Church of Ireland are all branches of the Anglican church and all of which have an appointed hierarchy of bishops (the Episcopacy) as does the Roman Catholic church. I understand what Jock is saying but am not aware of religious persecution between Catholic and Protestant in Scotland of the kind that occurred in Ireland. What persecution there was was the killing of many thousands of Covenanters in the late 1600's as a result of the king wishing to impose an episcopacy upon the churchgoers at that time.