Spiritual leaders from faiths throughout Scotland have united to supply prayers for the brand new King.
A assertion from senior clergy within the Scottish Church Leaders’ Discussion board thanked the Queen, who was the UK’s longest serving monarch, for her “trustworthy service as sovereign”.
With Charles III now King following her dying on Thursday, they added that they joined with “folks of fine religion in every single place in providing our prayers for His Majesty King Charles III and the Royal household presently”.
It got here after he was formally declared the nation’s new monarch at a gathering of the Accession Council in London.
The assertion was issued by a complete of 14 senior clergy in Scotland, together with the Rt Rev Dr Iain Greenshields, the Moderator of the Normal Meeting, Church of Scotland, and the Most Rev Leo Cushley, the Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church.
It was additionally signed by the Most Rev Mark Unusual, Primus, on behalf of the Faculty of Bishops, Scottish Episcopal Church, the Rev Archie Ford, Moderator, United Free Church of Scotland, the Rev Iver Martin, Moderator, Free Church of Scotland, the Rev Paul Whittle, Moderator, United Reformed Church (Scotland), the Rev Martin Hodson, normal director, Baptist Union of Scotland, the Rev Mark Slaney, district chair, Methodist Church (Scotland), the Rev Thomas R Wilson, chair, Congregational Federation in Scotland, Lt Col Carol Bailey, secretary for Scotland, Salvation Military, Adwoa Bittle, of the Spiritual Society of Mates (Quakers), Bishop Raphael of Ilion, Ecumenical Patriarchate, Archdiocese of Thyateira and Nice Britain, Pastor Chris Gbenle, Redeemed Christian Church of God (Scotland Province), and Bishop Kenneth Nowakowski, of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.
They acknowledged: “We be a part of with the Nation in providing our due to God for the lifetime of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and for her trustworthy service as sovereign all through these final 70 years.
“We give thanks for her evident Christian religion and recall that in her first Christmas broadcast as Queen in 1952 she requested us to wish for her ‘that God could give me knowledge and power to hold out the solemn guarantees that I shall be making, and that I could faithfully serve Him and also you, all the times of my life.’
“In her trustworthy service of God and of the Nation she has absolutely fulfilled the guarantees that she made.
“We be a part of with folks of fine religion in every single place in providing our prayers for His Majesty King Charles III and the Royal Household presently.”