In the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .), the term bishop is an expressive name for a Minister of Word and Sacrament who serves a congregation and exercises " the oversight of the flock of Christ.

Church Building-Formerly the meeting place of the Geneva Reformed Presbyterian Church congregation, the buff colored brick building was sold to Geneva College when that congregation merged with the nearby First Reformed Presbyterian Church in the early 21st century.

This congregation / presbytery / synod / general assembly schema is based on the historical structure of the larger Presbyterian churches, such as the Church of Scotland or the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .); some bodies, such as the Presbyterian Church in America and the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, skip one of the steps between congregation and General Assembly, and usually the step skipped is the Synod.

The largest congregation in the PC ( USA ) is Peachtree Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia, with a reported membership of 8, 989 ( 2009 ).

An 1870 map of Memphis shows religious buildings of the Baptist, Catholic, Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational, and other Christian denominations and a Jewish congregation.

The Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .) ordains two types of presbyters or elders, teaching ( pastor ) and ruling ( leaders of the congregation which form a council with the pastors ).

Presbyterian polity was developed as a rejection of governance by hierarchies of single bishops ( episcopal polity ), but also differs from the congregationalist polity in which each congregation is independent.

Congregational churches are sometimes called " Presbyterian " if they are governed by a council of elders ; but the difference is that every local congregation is independent, and its elders are accountable to its members, and congregationalism's wider assemblies are not ordinarily empowered to enforce discipline.

In 1951, a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland was forbidden by denominational authorities to hold a meeting in their own church hall at which Paisley was to be the speaker.

In response, the leaders of that congregation left the PCI and began a new denomination, the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster.

Zimmermann had been raised in the Dutch Reformed Church and his wife was Presbyterian, but shortly after they were wed they joined the Episcopalian congregation at Church of the Redeemer, where Merman was baptized.

In mid-century the rich, temporarily, and the upper middle class more permanently filled the brownstone row houses that filled Murray Hill's streets, the Brick Presbyterian Church followed its congregation ; selling its site facing City Hall Park, it rebuilt in 1857 closer to its congregation, on the smoothed brow of Murray Hill, at Fifth Avenue and 37th Street.

Timnath Presbyterian Church, a congregation of the Presbyterian Church ( USA ). The 1900 school building, now a secondary building to Timnath Elementary School.

Beloved Dr. R. F. Campbell, our First Presbyterian Church pastor, was in charge.

At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.

Miss Joan Frances Baker, a graduate of SMU, was married Saturday to Elvis Leonard Mason, an honor graduate of Lamar State College of Technology, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church of Houston.

The best approach, he figured, was to try to influence young people like the high schoolers he and his wife serve as advisors at First Presbyterian Church.

For many years he was a member of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, pastored from 1905 to 1926 by Social Gospel exponent Henry Sloane Coffin, while his wife and daughter belonged to the Brick Presbyterian Church.

On February 11, 2010, he was rushed to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City after complaining of chest pains, and had two coronary stents implanted in his heart.

One change made that constituted a concession to the Presbyterian Exceptions, was the updating and re-insertion of the so-called Black Rubric, which had been removed in 1559.

The so-called Liturgy of Comprehension of 1689, which was the result, conceded two thirds of the Presbyterian demands of 1661 ; but when it came to Convocation the members, now more fearful of William's perceived agenda, did not even discuss it and its contents were, for a long time, not even accessible.

The Church of South India was formed in 1947 by the union of Anglican, Methodist, Congregationalist, Presbyterian, and Reformed churches.

The UCC is by far the most diverse of the Reformed churches in the U. S. In the United Kingdom, the United Reformed Church was formed in 1972 by the merger of the Presbyterian and the Congregational churches, on presbyterian principles of union but within a continuing congregational regard for local diversity.

Lynch was raised a Presbyterian.

Their marriage was formalized at the Scotch Presbyterian Church in Montreal on October 30, 1812.

He was baptized in the Presbyterian Church in 1953.

His parents were Presbyterian dissenters ; he was educated in a dissenting academy at Newington Green run by Charles Morton and is believed to have attended the church there.

Defoe being a Presbyterian who had suffered in England for his convictions, was accepted as an adviser to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and committees of the Parliament of Scotland.

Recently, Presbyterian and Reformed Churches have been considering whether to restore more frequent communion, including weekly communion in more churches, considering that infrequent communion was derived from a memorialist view of the Lord's Supper, rather than Calvin's view of the sacrament as a means of grace.

Emily Smith first met John Armstrong in the North Presbyterian Church, which was located at 31st Street and Ninth Avenue.

William also instructed Dijkvelt to let it be known that he would support the Church of England ; that he was not a Presbyterian ; to persuade the Dissenters not to support James and to reassure moderate Catholics.

Cleveland's father was a Presbyterian minister, originally from Connecticut.

Cleveland, the fifth of nine children, was named Stephen Grover in honor of the first pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Caldwell, where his father was pastor at the time, but he did not use the name Stephen in his adult life.

He was staunchly Presbyterian, even though his family was Roman Catholic.

In November of the same year matters were taken even further, when at a meeting of the General Assembly in Glasgow the Scottish bishops were formally expelled from the Church, which was then established on a full Presbyterian basis.

That vision also affected the mainstream Presbyterian churches, and by the 1870s it had been assimilated by the established Church of Scotland.

In this same period, on the initiative of the Virginian politician Charles F. Mercer and the Presbyterian minister Robert Finley from New Jersey, in 1816 the American Colonization Society ( ACS ) was established in Washington D. C. by American politicians, senators and religious leaders from a variety of orientations.

Subsequently, Scottish Presbyterian churches established missions in Malawi, such as the one in Blantyre founded in 1876.

In the 1990s and early 21st century, the British Methodist Church was involved in the Scottish Church Initiative for Union, seeking greater unity with the established and Presbyterian Church of Scotland, the Scottish Episcopal Church and the United Reformed Church in Scotland.

The PC ( USA ) was established by the 1983 merger of the former Presbyterian Church in the United States, whose churches were located in the Southern and border states, with the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, whose congregations could be found in every state.

Category: Presbyterian denominations and unions established in the 20th century

It was thanks to Knox that the Presbyterian polity was established.

In the early 19th century the Welsh Methodists broke away from the Anglican church and established their own denomination, now the Presbyterian Church of Wales.

In December 1984, the Taiwan Aboriginal People's Movement was launched when a group of aboriginal political activists, aided by the progressive Presbyterian Church in Taiwan ( PCT ), established the Alliance of Taiwan Aborigines ( ATA, or yuan chuan hui ) to highlight the problems experienced by indigenous communities all over Taiwan, including: prostitution, economic disparity, land rights and official discrimination in the form of naming rights (; ; ).

His great great grandfather, the Reverend John Bethune ( 1751 – 1815 ), was the family patriarch and established the first Presbyterian Church in Montreal.

The two earliest churches to be established in Wilkes were the Episcopalian and Presbyterian.

Hendersonville had been established in 1798 by John Henderson, a Presbyterian missionary, who was one of the first white men to settle in the area.

New Hope Presbyterian Church, established in 1788, is the third oldest church in Georgia.

* One of the county's oldest church sites is the Hebron Presbyterian Church, established in 1796.

The Presbyterian church established a mission, school and hospital in Ganado in 1901.

A post office was established in 1884, headed by Reverend Charles A. Taylor, the local Presbyterian minister.

Later, the First Presbyterian Church of Donalsonville was established in January 1898 with 25 members.

The Reformed Presbyterian Church was established in 1871, with the Rev.

The early English wave of settlement claimed control of the falls along the Otter Tail River, and established the first Episcopalian and Presbyterian churches.

The Missouri General Assembly had voted to establish an asylum for the insane in Fulton ( February 26, 1847 ), the first mental health facility west of the Mississippi ; the General Assembly agreed ( February 28, 1851 ) to establish a school for the education of the deaf in Fulton ; in 1842 the Presbyterian Church had opened a female seminary later known as Synodical College ; in the fall of 1851 the Presbyterian Church established the all-male Fulton College, now known as Westminster College ; and Fulton was the seat of county government.

Early schools established in Macon were Johnson College ( Methodist ), 1866 ; St. James Academy and St. Agnes Hall ( Episcopal ), 1875 and 1884 ; outstanding Blees Military Academy, 1899 ; and south at College Mound, noted McGee ( Presbyterian ) College, 1853.