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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[1733	The Secession Church Splits from the Church of Scotland]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Disagreements about the appointment of ministers and the role of powerful landowners as patrons led to a split in the Church of Scotland. A small group of ministers who wished for congregations to have greater control over church appointments broke away and founded the more radical Secession Church. There was considerable support for the Secession Church in Fife. Some of the break-away congregations worshipped in converted secular buildings. Others constructed their own churches, like the now demolished Bethelfield Church in Kirkcaldy.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1733]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:dateSubmitted><![CDATA[08/03/2021 02:01:29 pm]]></dcterms:dateSubmitted>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[egsr@st-andrews.ac.uk]]></dcterms:contributor>
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    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[156]]></dcterms:identifier>
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