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Korean-American Presbyterian Church - around 53,000 members - Conservative Evangelical, Korean-Presbyterian, Calvinist; National Presbyterian Church in Mexico - around 2,800,000 members [8] - Conservative Calvinist; Korean Presbyterian Church Abroad - around 55,000 members - Progressive Evangelical, Korean-Presbyterian
Near the end of the American Civil War, the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America and a few smaller synods formed the Presbyterian Church in the United States. [5] In 1972, a conservative movement removed itself from the Presbyterian Church in the United States to form the Presbyterian Church in America.
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.
The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARPC) is a theologically conservative denomination in North America. The ARPC was formed by the merger of the Associate Presbytery with the Reformed Presbytery in 1782. It is one of the oldest conservative denominations in the United States.
The family tree of Presbyterian denominations in the United States, courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society. As its name suggests, the EPC is an evangelical denomination. It associates mainly with Reformed bodies holding similar or identical beliefs regarding Christology, ecclesiology, and ethical/moral stances.
The church considers this to be the only divinely-appointed method of church government. As with most Presbyterian denominations, the RPCNA is divided into several presbyteries, but unlike several other smaller Presbyterian denominations, the supreme governing body is a single synod, not a general assembly. Each congregation may send one ruling ...
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Most Presbyterian churches adhere to the Westminster Confession of Faith, but the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), in order to embrace the historical expressions of the whole Reformed tradition as found in the United States, has adopted a Book of Confessions which includes the Westminster Confession of Faith.
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]