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The Free Presbyterian Church of North America (FPCNA) is a Presbyterian denomination in the United States and Canada with mission works in Liberia, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, and Kenya. Originally consisting of North American congregations under the auspices of the fundamentalist Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster , the North American group ...
The Free Presbyterian Church remained small with seven presbyteries, about 72 congregations, and 70 ministers and licentiates, scattered from Pennsylvania to Iowa—though most congregations were in southern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. The church launched a newspaper, the Free Presbyterian in 1850 and Iberia College in 1854. At its peak in ...
Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America - around 6,500 members - Liberal, Presbyterian, Arminian Evangelical Assembly of Presbyterian Churches in America - 73 churches in the USA - formed by churches of Korean and Chinese origin.
Other Presbyterian groups formed recently include the Free Presbyterian Church of North America, which initially operated under the auspices of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster until it became a distinct denomination in 2005, the Westminster Presbyterian Church in the United States, and the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches ...
Presbyterians trace their history to the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. The Presbyterian heritage, and much of its theology, began with the French theologian and lawyer John Calvin (1509–64), whose writings solidified much of the Reformed thinking that came before him in the form of the sermons and writings of Huldrych Zwingli.
The new church was named the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. It was a predecessor to the contemporary Presbyterian Church (USA) . The denomination originated in colonial times when members of the Church of Scotland and Presbyterians from Ireland first immigrated to America.
The Woman's Auxiliary of the Presbyterian Church, U.S. was established in 1912, uniting various PCUS women's groups into one organization. [14] A point of contention were talks of merger between the mainline "Northern Presbyterians", the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and its successor denomination, the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Free Presbyterian Church of North America; Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland; Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster; Fundamental Methodist Conference; Fundamentalist Presbyterian Church in Brazil; Fundamentalist Presbyterian General Assembly in Korea