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At the Breach in 1747 the majority of the Kinross Seceders adhered to the Burgher Church however there were a number who took the Antiburgher side and joined with an Antiburgher congregation in Milnathort. A number of years later in 1796 the Presbytery of Kirkcaldy disjoined 160 members of the Antiburgher congregation in Milnathort and erected them into a separate charge in Kinross, under the name of Kinross East Antiburgher. Within two months a site had been secured in Kinross upon which a church was erected by the end of 1796, and Thomas Beveridge, the first minister of the congregation, was ordained in 1799. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, Kinross East Antiburgher became Kinross East United Free Church. and in 1925 a union was established with the congregation of Kinross West, to form the charge of Kinross United Free Church of Scotland. Upon the 1929 union between the United Free Church of Scotland and the Church of Scotland, Kinross United Free was renamed Kinross East Church of Scotland and in 1979 the congregation of Kinross Church of Scotland was formed by the union of Kinross East and Kinross West. Kinross Church of Scotland sits under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Perth. |