General Assembly 2023 – Livestream
The 2023 General Assembly will be held from Saturday 20 May until Thursday 25 May. It will be a hybrid event, with some attending in the Assembly Hall and others participating online. The proceedings will also be livestreamed on this page.
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Catch up on worship, reports and debates from the 2022 General Assembly.
Monday 18th, 2026
- Session 12 - Closing Ceremony
- Session 11 - Appointment of Principal Clerk
- Session 11 - Report of the Faith Action Programme Leadership Team - Sections 20-30, (Reports 11/1) contd
- Session 11 - Report of the Chalmers Lectureship Trust (Reports 22/1)
- Session 11 - Report of the Church of Scotland Pension Trustees (Reports 21/1)
- Session 10 - Report of the Nomination Committee (Reports 20/1)
- Session 10 - Report of the General Trustees (Reports 19/1)
- Session 9 - Report of the Committee on Chaplains to HM Forces (Reports 18/1)
- Session 9 - Report of the Committee to draft a reply to His Majesty’s Most Gracious Letter
- The Sacrament of Holy Communion Monday Morning
Sunday 17th, 2026
- Session 8 - Report of the Iona Community Board (Reports 17/1)
- Session 8 - Report of the Registration of Ministries Committee (Reports 16/1)
- Session 8 - Report of the Ecumenical Relations Committee (Reports 15/1)
- Session 8 - Report of the Social Care Council (Reports 14/1)
- Session 8 - Constitution of Assembly - Sunday Worship
Saturday 16th, 2026
- Session 7 - Report of the Church of Scotland Guild (Reports 13/1)
- Session 7 - Report of the Faith Action Programme Leadership Team - Sections 12-19 (Reports 11/1) contd
- Session 7 - Joint Report on Legacies of Slavery (Reports 12/1)
- Session 6 - Report of the Faith Action Programme Leadership Team - Sections 8-11 (Reports 11/1) contd.
- Session 5 - Report of the Faith Action Programme Leadership Team - Sections 1-7 (Reports 11/1).
- Session 5 - Constitution of Assembly - Saturday Worship
Friday 15th, 2026
- Session 4 - Report of the Safeguarding Committee (Reports 10/1)
- Session 4 - Report of the Presbytery Review Committee (Reports 9/1)
- Session 4 - Report of the Theological Forum and the Faith Action Programme Leadership Team on the Causes of Decline of the Church (Reports 8/1)
- Session 3 - Report of the Church of Scotland Trust (Reports 7/1)
- Session 3 - Joint Report of the Assembly Trustees and the Church of Scotland Trust on the Scots Hotel, Tiberias (Reports 6/1).
- Session 3 - Report of the Assembly Trustees (Reports 5/1), including the Overture from the Presbytery of Perth
- Session 2 - Report of the Legal Questions Committee (Reports 4/1)
- Session 2 - Presentation of Bible to Moderator by the Scottish Bible Society (Reports 1/4)
- Session 2 - Report of the Assembly Business Committee (Reports 1/1)
- Session 2 - Section 2 of the Report of the Legal Questions Committee
- Session 2 - Speeches from Delegates and Visitors
- Session 1 - Opening Ceremony
Thursday 22nd, 2025
- Closing Session of the General Assembly
- Report of the Registration of Ministries Committee
- Report of the Safeguarding Committee
- Report of the Selection Committee
- Report of the Nomination Committee
- Thursday Worship
Wednesday 21st, 2025
- Report of the Report of the Church of Scotland Housing and Loan Fund
- Report of the the General Trustees
- Report of the Ecumenical Relations Committee
- FAPLT Conference Session
- Report of the Iona Community Board
- Report of the Church of Scotland Trust
- Report of the Social Care Council
- Report of the Church of Scotland Guild
- Address by Major General Robin Lindsay CBE
- Report of the Committee on Chaplains to HM Forces
- Report of the Committee to draft a reply to His Majesty’s Most Gracious Letter
- Wednesday Worship
Tuesday 20th, 2025
- FAPLT Report - Sections 29 to 31 and Joint Report of the Faith Action Programme Leadership Team and the Legal Questions Committee
- FAPLT - Presbytery Mission Plan Implementation Group Sections 25 - 31 Includes Petition
- Report of FAPLT - Mission Support - Sections 17 - 24
- Joint Supplementary Report of FAPLT & the Assembly Trustees on Life & Work Magazine
- Report of FAPLT - People and Training - Sections 11-16, and Supplementary Report
- FAPLT Section 21 and address by Nick Georgiadis, Director of Fundraising & Supporter Engagement, Christian Aid
- Address by Nick Georgiadis, Director of Fundraising & Supporter Engagement, Christian Aid
- Report of FAPLT - Public Life and Social Justice Sections 8 to10
- Report of the Faith Action Programme Leadership Team (FAPLT) - Sections 1 to 7
- Tuesday Worship
Monday 19th, 2025
- Joint Report of the Theological Forum and the Faith Action Programme Leadership Team on Assisted Dying
- Report of the Ecumenical Relations Committee Sections 1-N2
- Report of the Church of Scotland Pension Trustees
- Report and Supplementary Report of the Assembly Trustees 9-17
- Report and Supplementary Report of the Assembly Trustees Sections 1-8
- Address by The Most Reverend Hosam Elias Naoum
- Monday Worship
Saturday 17th, 2025
- Report of the Ethical Oversight Committee
- Report of the Church of Scotland Investors’ Trust
- Report of the Theological Forum
- Report of the Committee on Overtures and Cases – Returns to Overtures
- Section 3 of the Report of the Legal Questions Committee regarding the proposed Presbytery Review Act.
- Report of the Presbytery Review Committee
- Report of the Legal Questions Committee
- Report of the Procedure Committee – Proposal of the Consent Agenda
- Report of the Assembly Business Committee includes the Scottish Bible Society and Presentation of Bible
- Section 2 of the Report of the Legal Questions Committee regarding proposed changes to Standing Orders
- Presentation of Delegates and Visitors
- Address by Retiring Moderator
- Address by the Lord High Commissioner and reply by the Moderator
- Election and installation of Moderator
- Opening Worship
- Opening of the General Assembly 2025
Thursday 23rd, 2024
- Closing Session of the 2024 Church of Scotland General Assembly
- Supplementary Report of the Faith Action Programme Leadership Team
- Report of the Registration of Ministries Committee
- Report of the Selection Committee
- Report of the Nomination Committee
- The Most Revd Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Thursday Morning Worship
Wednesday 22nd, 2024
- Report & Supplementary Report of the Faith Action Programme Leadership Team. Sections 10-14
- Report of the Church of Scotland Trust
- Report of the Trustees of the Housing and Loan Fund
- Report and Supplementary Report of the General Trustees
- Report of the Ethical Oversight Committee
- Report of the Church of Scotland Investors’ Trust
- Report of the Church of Scotland Pension Trustees
- Report of the Iona Community Board
- Report of the Safeguarding Committee