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The '''Free Presbyterian Church''' is a conservative [[Reformed Churches|Reformed Baptist Denomination]] founded by Ian Praisley in 1951. Most of its membership live in [[Northern Ireland]]. The church has branches in [[North America]], [[Republic of Ireland]], [[United Kingdom]] and [[Australia]].
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The '''Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster''' is a conservative presbyterian] founded by Ian Paisley in 1951. Most of its membership live in [[Northern Ireland]].  
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The church is unashamedly Protestant. It gladly identifies with the great Protestant Reformation. Throughout its history it has stood opposed to the ecumenical movement’s efforts to promote union with the Church of Rome, because that church still holds to every dogma that caused the Reformation in the first place. In theology the church is Reformed. It stands foursquare in the great Geneva tradition of Calvin, Knox, the English and American Puritans, and some of the most used revival preachers in history.
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Today there are some 100 Free Presbyterian churches and extensions in various parts of the world—in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, Canada, and the United States. They also have missionary works in Spain, India, Kenya, Liberia, and the West Indies. In 2005, the congregations of North America were formed into an autonomous presbytery as The Free Presbyterian Church of North America. The Ulster and North American presbyteries, however, maintain a fraternal relationship resulting in an international Free Presbyterian Church family.
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[(http://www.fpcna.org/fpcna_about_sep.asp)]
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Doctrinally, the church describes itself as fundamentalist, evangelical, and separatist. The Church practise believer's (adult) [[Baptism]]. The Church is often critisized in conservative Reformed circles, for neither being [[presbyterian]] in government, nor [[calvinist]] in doctrine. The Church is actually more nearly allied to modern [[Fundamentalism|Fundamentalist Christianity]] than to the Presbyterian and Reformed tradition
      
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