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Presently, the primary liturgical book of the Presbyterian Church (USA) is The Book of Common Worship of 1993, published in cooperation with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. These books are not commonly used in the pews, but are resources for pastors in the preparation for Sunday worship, as well as for devotional use by church members and ...
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 were formed during the English Civil War.
The Book of Confessions contains the creeds and confessions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). [1] The contents are the Nicene Creed, the Apostles' Creed, the Scots Confession, the Heidelberg Catechism, the Second Helvetic Confession, the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Shorter Catechism, the Larger Catechism, the Theological Declaration of Barmen, the Confession of 1967, the Confession ...
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) Synod of the Covenant (programmatic)
The Presbyterian Church in the CSA absorbed the smaller United Synod in 1864. After the Confederacy's defeat in 1865, it was renamed the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS) and was commonly nicknamed the "Southern Presbyterian Church" throughout its history, while the PCUSA was known as the "Northern Presbyterian Church". [55]
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
It was preceded by the Common Lectionary, assembled in 1983, itself preceded by the COCU Lectionary, published in 1974 by the Consultation on Church Union (COCU). This lectionary was derived from Protestant lectionaries in use, which in turn were based on the 1969 Ordo Lectionum Missae , a three-year lectionary produced by the Catholic Church ...