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In September 1798 a petition was presented to the Burgher Presbytery of Perth requesting that Brechin be supplied with sermon, and from this time Burgher services were held within Brechin, initially around three times each month. The first meeting house of the Brechin Burgher congregation took the form of a barn purchased in 1802 at a cost of £105 and David Blackadder, the first minister of the charge , was ordained in 1804. A new church was erected in 1849, replacing the first building, and this church in turn was superceded in 1892 when the third church of Brechin Maison Dieu Lane was opened on a new site, at a cost of nearly £6000. In 1847 Brechin Maison Dieu (or Maisondieu) Lane Burgher Church became part of the United Presbyterian Church. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, Brechin Maison Dieu United Presbyterian congregation became Brechin Maison Dieu United Free Church, and upon the 1929 union between the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland, Brechin Maison Dieu United Free Church became Brechin Maison Dieu Church of Scotland. In 1990 the session of Brechin Cathedral was established by a union between Brechin Maison Dieu, Brechin Strathcarro and Brechin Cathedral. The congregation of Brechin Cathedral Church of Scotland sits under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Angus. |