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First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian congregation in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, founded in 1882 by Rev. A. B. Coit. [1] It was the first church in the town and predated Hattiesburg's own incorporation by two years.
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.
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."
[36] [37] [38] Several PC(USA) breakaway groups like New Covenant Presbyterian Church in McComb, MS which broke from J.J. White Memorial Presbyterian Church in 2007, [39] [40] [41] and First Scot's Presbyterian Church, PCA in Beaufort, South Carolina (formerly First Scots Independent Presbyterian Church) voted to affiliate with the PCA.
First Presbyterian Church is the largest Presbyterian church in Mississippi and a flagship and founding congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America. Its communicant membership is over 2,500. [2] With 3,100 members, it has become the largest Presbyterian congregation in Mississippi and one of the largest in the United States.
On Easter, 2013, he became Senior Pastor of the historic Grace Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Peoria, Illinois and ministered in that capacity until 2020, when he was made Pastor Emeritus. In 2020, Chapell was appointed Stated Clerk Pro Tempore of the PCA and in 2021 was elected as the Stated Clerk (i.e., Chief Administrative Officer), a position ...
Duncan was named senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Jackson, Mississippi in 1996, and served in that capacity until early 2014. [citation needed] An active churchman, he has been involved in the courts of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) in various ways: General Assembly's Committee on Psalmody; Committees of Commissioners for Covenant Theological Seminary, Mission to North ...
The RPCUS began when Chalcedon Presbyterian Church in north Atlanta, Georgia left he Presbyterian Church in America in 1983. Chalcedon had set requirements that its elders adhere to both theonomy and postmillennialism; however, groups within the PCA's North Georgia Presbytery complained that the church was being too strict in its requirements and that it was "going beyond the Westminster ...