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The Covenant Presbyterian Church (CPC) is a Protestant, Reformed denomination, founded in the United States in 2006 by a group of churches that split from the Reformed Presbyterian Church General Assembly. [2] [3] [4] [5]
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
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.
A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity, identified by traits such as a name, organization and doctrine.Individual bodies, however, may use alternative terms to describe themselves, such as church, convention, communion, assembly, house, union, network, or sometimes fellowship.
Following the removal of the bar on homosexual clergy in the PC (U.S.A.) on the denominational level in 2010, many churches left the denomination, joining either the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and or the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians, which became its own denomination in 2012.
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.
Reformed Presbyterian Church – Hanover Presbytery; Reformed Presbyterian Church General Assembly; Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States; Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America; Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod
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.