Secession Synod
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The Secession Synod was the Presbyterian Synod of Ireland from 1743 to 1840.[1]
The Secession movement began in the 1733, when some Protestant preachers in Scotland observed what they saw as loosening in the orthodoxy of the Presbyterian Church and a movement towards liberal modernism. Ebenezer Erskine was dismissed from his Scottish congregation after declaring that the Scottish church needed to be reformed;[2] he and several others started their ‘Associate Presbytery’[3] and became known as Seceders.
Seceder congregations spread throughout Scotland and Ulster.[4] There was a split amongst the Seceders in Scotland over an oath (leading to the Burghers and anti-Burghers), but this was mended in 1818.[2]
