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5,285 (end of 2023) [4] Official website. www .pcanet .org. The Presbyterian Church in America ( PCA) is the second-largest Presbyterian church body, behind the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the largest conservative Calvinist denomination in the United States. The PCA is Reformed in theology and presbyterian in government.
The Presbyterian Church (USA), abbreviated PCUSA, is a mainline Protestant denomination in the United States. It is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the country, known for its liberal stance on doctrine and its ordaining of women and members of the LGBT community as elders and ministers.
2.8 million in 1957. Ministers. 10,261 in 1957 [1] The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America ( PCUSA) was a Presbyterian denomination existing from 1789 to 1958. In that year, the PCUSA merged with the United Presbyterian Church of North America. The new church was named the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.
In 1983, the theonomic Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States was formed as an offshoot from the Presbyterian Church in America. Further splits in the RPCUS lead to the creation of the Reformed Presbyterian Church – Hanover Presbytery and the Reformed Presbyterian Church General Assembly. Later, a group from the RPCGA formed the ...
The Presbyterian Church in the United States ( PCUS, originally Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America) was a Protestant denomination in the Southern and border states of the United States that existed from 1861 to 1983. That year, it merged with the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA) to form ...
The United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America ( UPCUSA) was the largest branch of Presbyterianism in the United States from May 28, 1958, to 1983. It was formed by the union of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA), often referred to as the "Northern" Presbyterian Church, with the United Presbyterian ...
There are 16 synods in PC (USA). A synod is a regional governing body that is made up of presbyteries . Synods are classified as either programmatic or reduced-function. [1] [2] The following are the synods of the PC (USA): [3] [4] Synod of Alaska-Northwest. Synod of Boriquen (Puerto Rico)
Separated from. United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA) later the PC (USA) Congregations. 627 (2022) [1] Members. 125,870 (2022) [1] Official website. www .epc .org. The Evangelical Presbyterian Church ( EPC) is an American church body holding to presbyterian governance and Reformed theology.