The Presbytery of Aberdeen is one of the forty-six presbyteries

Presbyterian polity

Presbyterian polity is a method of church governance typified by the rule of assemblies of presbyters, or elders. Each local church is governed by a body of elected elders usually called the session or consistory, though other terms, such as church board, may apply...

 of the Church of Scotland

Church of Scotland

The Church of Scotland, known informally by its Scots language name, the Kirk, is a Presbyterian church, decisively shaped by the Scottish Reformation....

, being the local presbytery for the city of Aberdeen

Aberdeen

Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of ....

. The current moderator

Moderator of the General Assembly

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 is the Rev John M Watson, who is minister of St Mark's Church. The presbytery represents and supervises forty-four Church of Scotland congregations within the city. The office is at Mastrick

Mastrick

Mastrick is an area of Aberdeen, Scotland, located on the western fringes of the city around 2.5 miles from the city centre. It currently has a population of 7871 and an unemployment rate of 1.6%. Residential property in the area is a mix of houses and flats, 23% of which are still council owned...

 Parish Church

Parish church

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.

Parishes

Location	Dedication	Minister	Details
Bridge of Don: Old Machar		Vacant charge	Sunday 10.30am Sunday 6.30pm (on the first Sunday of the month)
Bridge of Don: St Columba's	St Columba Saint Columba -Saints:* Columba , Irish Christian saint who evangelized Scotland* Columba the Virgin, also known as Saint Columba of Cornwall* Columba of Sens* Columba of Spain* Columba of Terryglass* Sancta Columba -Schools:...	Rev Louis Kinsey	Sunday 10.00am Sunday 6.00pm
Cove		Vacant charge	Sunday 10.15am
Craigiebuckler		Rev Kenneth L. Petrie	Sunday 11am (September to June) Sunday 10am (July to August)
Denburn		charge dissolved	parish merged with that of Gilcomston South
Ferryhill		Rev John H. A. Dick	Sunday 10.00am (July to August) Sunday 11.00am (September to June) Sunday 6.00pm (third Sunday in January to May and September to October) Tuesday 12.10pm (15 minutes) (third Tuesday of month)
Garthdee (linked with Ruthrieston West)		Rev Dr Benjamin D. W. Byun	Sunday 11.30am
Gilcomston South		Rev D. Dominic Smart	Sunday 11.00am Sunday 6.30pm Tuesday 12.45pm (30 minutes) (fortnightly) Wednesday 7.15pm Saturday 7pm
High Hilton		Rev A. Peter Dickson	Sunday 11.00am Sunday 6.30pm
High Kirk of St Machar (St Machar's Cathedral)	St Machar Saint Machar Machar was a 6th-century Irish Saint active in Scotland.Much of what is claimed to be known about St Machar derives from the Aberdeen Breviary, a work compiled in the late fifteenth to early sixteenth centuries, long after the traditional date of Machar's life...	Rev Alan D. Falconer	Sunday 11.00am Sunday 6.00pm
Holburn West		Rev Duncan C. Eddie	Sunday 11.00am
Mannofield		Rev Keith T. Blackwood	Sunday 9.30am Sunday 11.00am Sunday 6.30pm Wednesday 8.00pm
Mastrick		Rev Lesley P. Risby	Sunday 11.00am
Middlefield		Rev Elspeth Harley	Sunday 11.00am
Midstocket (Union of the former St Ninian's and Beechgrove Churches)		Rev Marion Cowie	Sunday 10.30am
New Stockethill		Rev Ian M. Aitken	Woodhill Court: Sunday 10.00am (first Sunday of the month only) Cairncry Community Centre: Sunday 10.30am
Northfield		Rev Scott C. Guy	Sunday 10.30am
Queen Street (union of North Church of St Andrew and Greyfriars John Knox Church )		Rev Graham D. S. Deans	Sunday 11.00am
Queen's Cross		Rev Scott Rennie	Sunday 10.00am Sunday 11.00am (September to June only) Wednesday 1.15pm (September to June only)
Rosemount		Rev A. David M. Graham	Sunday 11.00am
Rubislaw		Rev Andrew G. N. Wilson	Sunday 9.30am (March to May and September to November) Sunday 11am (March to May and September to November) Sunday 10.00am (June to August) Sunday 11am (December to February)
Ruthrieston West (linked with Garthdee)		Rev Benjamin D.W. Byun	Sunday 10.00am
South Holburn (merger of Holburn Central and Ruthrieston South)		Rev George S. Cowie	Sunday 10.30am
St George's Tillydrone	St George Saint George Saint George was, according to tradition, a Roman soldier from Syria Palaestina and a priest in the Guard of Diocletian, who is venerated as a Christian martyr. In hagiography Saint George is one of the most venerated saints in the Catholic , Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, and the Oriental Orthodox...	Rev James Weir	11.15am
St John's for Deaf People	St John John the Evangelist Saint John the Evangelist is the conventional name for the author of the Gospel of John...	Rev John R. Osbeck	Sunday 11.00am (first, third and fifth Sunday of the month only)
St Mark's	St Mark	Vacant charge	Sunday 10am (July and August) Sunday 11am (September to June)
St Mary's	St Mary	Rev Elsie J. Fortune	Sunday 11.00am
St Nicholas' Uniting Kirk	St Nicholas Saint Nicholas Saint Nicholas , also called Nikolaos of Myra, was a historic 4th-century saint and Greek Bishop of Myra . Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker...	Rev Stephen Taylor	Sunday 9.30am (June to September) Sunday 11.00am
St Nicholas' Kincorth South	St Nicholas Saint Nicholas Saint Nicholas , also called Nikolaos of Myra, was a historic 4th-century saint and Greek Bishop of Myra . Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker...	Rev Edward C. McKenna	Sunday 10.00am Sunday 6.30pm
St Stephen's	St Stephen Saint Stephen Saint Stephen The Protomartyr , the protomartyr of Christianity, is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox Churches....	Rev James M. Davies	Sunday 11.00a Sunday 7.30pm (September to June only)
Summerhill		Vacant charge	Sunday 11.00am
Torry St Fittick's	St Fittick	Rev Iain C. Barclay	Sunday 9.30am (June to August only) Sunday 11.00am
Woodside		Rev Markus Aufferman	Sunday 11.00am

Outlying Parishes

Location	Dedication	Minister	Details
Bucksburn Stoneywood		Rev Nigel Parker	Sunday 9.45am Sunday 11.00am
Cults		Rev Ewen J. Gilchrist	Sunday 10.30am
Dyce		Rev Manson Merchant	Sunday 9.30am (second and last Sundays of the month) Sunday 11.00am Sunday 6.30pm (first and third Sundays of the month)
Kingswells		Rev Dolly Purnell	Sunday 11.00am
Newhills		Rev Hugh Wallace	Sunday 10.30am Sunday 6.00pm
Peterculter		Rev John A. Ferguson	Sunday 10.30am

See also

• List of Church of Scotland parishes
• List of Church of Scotland synods and presbyteries
• Presbytery of Europe
  Presbytery of Europe
  The Presbytery of Europe covers the Church of Scotland's congregations in continental Europe.As a Presbyterian church, the Church of Scotland has no bishops. Instead courts of ministers, elders and deacons have collective responsibility for the governance of the church...
  
  
• Presbytery of Glasgow
  Presbytery of Glasgow (Church of Scotland)
  The Presbytery of Glasgow one of the 46 Presbyteries of the Church of Scotland. It dates back to the earliest periods of Presbyterian church government in the Church of Scotland in the late 16th century...
  
  

External links

• Presbytery Website
• Church of Scotland