Gabriel Cunningham

Gabriel Cunningham (c.1620–1691) was a Church of Scotland minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1652.

Due to ongoing debates regarding Scottish Episcopacy during his life he served three non-continuous spells as minister of Dunlop, Ayrshire.

[4] He was deprived of office in 1664 for failing to accept the new rules of Episcopacy, seeing this as a return to Catholicism.

However, he did not immediately return, and only in June 1674 did he recommence, assisted by John Hay of Lady Yester's Church in Edinburgh.

The Act of Parliament of 25 April 1690 ended Episcopacy in the Church of Scotland and he then continued unencumbered.