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The churches that formed the Presbyterian Church of Australia were the Presbyterian Churches of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia. [3] These state churches were (and still are) incorporated by separate Acts of Parliament (i.e. by the respective State Parliaments) for property holding purposes.
James Forbes – minister of the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria and founder of the Melbourne Academy, a college for boys (later Scotch College). Friedrich Hagenauer – Presbyterian minister; founder of Ramahyuck Mission to house the members of the Ganai tribe who survived attacks in west and central Gippsland
From 1901 to 1977, the PCV was the largest of the state Presbyterian churches. [3] In 1977, the majority of congregations left to join the Uniting Church in Australia . The Presbyterian Church of Victoria accepts the Westminster Confession of Faith as its subordinate standard , read in the light of a Declaratory Statement of 1901.
Two churches created from Scottish preachers. Presbyterian Church of Australia: 546 : 1901: Formed in 1901 by a union of state Presbyterian churches. In 1977, two-thirds of the PCA amalgamated with other denominations to form the Uniting Church in Australia. Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia: 14 : Exclusive psalmody : 1843
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 Scots Church Sydney is an active congregation of the Presbyterian Church in Australia. The historic Presbyterian church located at 42–44 Margaret Street on the corner of York Street, in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Rosenthal, Rutledge ...
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
The first Presbyterian congregation in Queensland had formed in 1849, and the first Presbyterian Church opened on Grey Street, South Brisbane, in 1851.Other Presbyterian churches opened in newly settled areas of Queensland, and in 1863 Queensland's Presbyterian congregations combined into a Synod and the Presbyterian Church of Queensland (PCQ) was formed.