Presbyterian Church in America
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The Presbyterian Church in America is the conservative Calvinist American church of the Presbyterian family. It is considered to be a Reformed Denomination.
The PCA was formed by a merger of the the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA) and the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS) in 1983, which occurred when the mainline Presbyterian Church became too liberal. The PCA professes adherence to the Westminster Standards and is strongly influenced by Fundamentalism. Overall, it is generally more liberal than the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, although the two denominations enjoy good fraternal relations and share many similarities in doctrine and worship.
The PCA is by far the largest of the conservative Reformed Churches in the United States, with nearly 350,000 members.[1] The leading seminary for the PCA is the Covenant Seminary, located in St. Louis.
The Presbyterian Church has used, and continues to use, a system of elected representation (elders and deacons).
see also
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the much larger mainline denomination.
