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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]
American Presbyterian Church - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist; Covenant Presbyterian Church - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist; Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church - Orthodox, 1646 Westminster Confession, Presbyterian, Calvinist [15] Evangel Presbytery - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist; Faith Presbytery, Bible Presbyterian Church
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.
Presbyterian Church of Cameroon – 1.8 million [133] Presbyterian Church of India – 1.5 million [134] Presbyterian Church in Korea (BaekSeok) – 1.5 million [135] Presbyterian Church (USA) – 1.1 million [136] Presbyterian Church in Sudan – 1.0 million [137] Presbyterian Church of Ghana – 1.0 million [138] Presbyterian Church of Brazil ...
Synod of the Covenant (programmatic) Synod of Lakes and Prairies (programmatic) Synod of Lincoln Trails (programmatic) Synod of Living Waters (programmatic) Synod of Mid-America (programmatic) Synod of the Mid-Atlantic (programmatic) Synod of the Northeast (programmatic) Synod of the Pacific; Synod of the Rocky Mountains; Synod of South Atlantic
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.
The Presbyterian Church (USA) is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States, [7] reporting 1,094,733 active members and 17,978 ordained ministers (including retired ones) [8] in 8,572 congregations at the end of 2023. [1] This number does not include members who are baptized but not confirmed, or the inactive members also ...