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In 1892 the Free Church of Scotland, following the example Of the United Presbyterian Church and the Church of Scotland ( 1889), passed a Declaratory Act relaxing the stringency of subscription to the confession, with the result that a small number of ministers and congregations, mostly in the Highlands, severed their connection with the church and formed the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, on strictly and straitly orthodox lines. In 1907 this body had twenty congregations and twelve ministers.
It is Reformed in Doctrine, Worship and Practice, basing all on the Word of God: the Bible. The "subordinate standard" of the church is the Westminster Confession of Faith. The FP Church of Scotland is represented in around a dozen nations, found in Europe, North America, Australasia, Africa and Asia.