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A presbytery is a regional governing body or lower judicatories that is made up of local churches. In official communications, many of these presbyteries use "Presbytery of" in front of their names, for example, "Presbytery of The James."
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.
Evangelical Assembly of Presbyterian Churches in America- 73 churches in the USA - formed by churches of Korean and Chinese origin. ECO (Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians) - more than 129,765 members, 320 churches and 500 Pastors (2018) [ 3 ] - Evangelical , Presbyterian [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
Church Image Built Location City Description; First Kilrea Presbyterian Church: 1873 founded Kilrea, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland: Second Ballyeaston Presbyterian Church: 1768 founded Mount Merrion Avenue
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.
Church Image Built Designated Location Description Affiliation San Jose de los Jemez Mission: 1621–26 2012 Jemez Springs, NM: Spanish Colonial: Roman Catholic: San Estévan del Rey Mission Church: 1629 1970 Acoma Pueblo, NM: Spanish Colonial: Roman Catholic: Mission San Luis de Apalachee (destroyed) 1656 1966 Leon County, FL: Roman Catholic ...
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.
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 formed during the English Civil War.