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Presbyterian Church (USA) - around 1,140,665 members (2022) - Liberal, Presbyterian [12] Presbyterian Reformed Church of Mexico - 26,000 members [ 13 ] - Orthodox, Presbyterian , Calvinist Reformed Church in America - around 190,000 members -Liberal, Presbyterian , formerly Dutch Reformed Church
The Presbyterian Church (USA) is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States, [8] reporting 1,094,733 active members and 17,978 ordained ministers (including retired ones) [9] in 8,572 congregations at the end of 2023. [2] This number does not include members who are baptized but not confirmed, or the inactive members also ...
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.
This is a list of notable Presbyterian churches in the United States, where a church is notable either as a congregation or as a building. In the United States, numerous churches are listed on the National Register of Historic Places or are noted on state or local historic registers.
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.
For the Bible Presbyterians, a disagreement over leadership and the direction of the denomination led to a split in 1957, when the Bible Presbyterian Church–Collingswood Synod, under the control of Carl McIntire, left the Bible Presbyterian Church–Columbus Synod, which in 1961 took the name Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
Presbyterianism is a Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders. [2] Though other Reformed churches are structurally similar, the word Presbyterian is applied to churches that trace their roots to the Church of Scotland or to English Dissenter groups that were formed during the English Civil War.
Presbyterian Church of Cameroon – 1.8 million [133] Presbyterian Church of India – 1.5 million [134] Presbyterian Church in Korea (BaekSeok) – 1.5 million [135] Presbyterian Church (USA) – 1.1 million [136] Presbyterian Church in Sudan – 1.0 million [137] Presbyterian Church of Ghana – 1.0 million [138] Presbyterian Church of Brazil ...