GIB, ADAM (1714-88), Scottish divine and leader of the Antiburgher section of the Scottish Secession Church, was born on April 14, 1714 in the parish of Muckhart, Perthshire, and, on the completion of his literary and theological studies at Edin burgh and Perth, was licensed as a preacher in 1740. In 1741 he was ordained minister of the large Secession congregation of Bristo street, Edinburgh. In 1745 he was almost the only minis ter of Edinburgh who continued to preach against rebellion while the troops of Charles Edward were in occupation of the town. When in 1747 "the Associate Synod," by a narrow majority, decided not to give full immediate effect to a judgment which had been passed in the previous year against the lawfulness of the "Burgess Oath," Gib led the protesting minority, who sepa rated from their brethren and formed the Antiburgher Synod (April Io) in his own house in Edinburgh. It was chiefly under his influence that it was agreed by this ecclesiastical body at subsequent meetings to summon to the bar their "Burgher" brethren, and finally to depose and excommunicate them for con tumacy. Gib's action in forming the Antiburgher Synod led, after prolonged litigation, to his exclusion from the church in Bristo street. From 17S3 till within a short period of his death, which took place on June 18, 1788, he preached in Nicolson street church, to an audience of 2,000 persons. He was nicknamed "Pope Gib."