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Africa Evangelical Presbyterian Church

Two AEPC representatives were present in the PCA 40th General Assembly in Louisville, Kentucky one of them is the current moderator of the Africa Evangelical Presbyterian Church.

Charles F. Wishart

At the 1923 General Assembly Wishart defeated William Jennings Bryan in the election for Moderator largely on this issue.

Charles Macalester

The college moved to its present location, on Snelling Avenue at Grand Avenue in St. Paul, in 1885 after building an endowment and seeking the help of the Presbyterian Church.

Como, Colorado

The former Como High School had begun in an abandoned Presbyterian Church, which was moved to another site.

David Hunter Riddle

For the next twenty nine years he served as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Winchester, Virginia, from 1828 to 1833, and then in Pittsburgh from 1833 to 1857 where he served as pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church.

Grady Howard

He was a member of Cape Fear Valley Hospital's original board of trustees and a member of Highland Baptist Church in Taylors, South Carolina although he attended the First Presbyterian Church in Spring Lake for more than 50 years.

Harold Lloyd Henderson

He also served as Presbytery and Synod Moderator, and was a frequent Commissioner to the Presbyterian Church's in Canada's General Assembly.

Insa-dong

Among the historically significant buildings located in the area are Unhyeongung mansion, Jogyesa - one of the most significant Korean Buddhist temples, and one of Korea's oldest Presbyterian churches.

John Williamson Nevin

But under the influence of Neander he was gradually breaking away from "Puritanic Presbyterianism," and in 1840, having resigned his chair in Allegheny, he was appointed professor of theology in the (German Reformed) Theological Seminary at Mercersburg, Pa., and thus passed from the Presbyterian Church into the German Reformed.

Leone Levi

There he obtained British citizenship and joined the Presbyterian church.

Maggie Kuhn

During the 1950s and 1960s, Kuhn worked for the Presbyterian Church, where she hoped to give emphasis to the social dimension of the Gospel.

Marianne Moore

Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri, in the manse of the Presbyterian church where her maternal grandfather, John Riddle Warner, served as pastor.

Mary C. Thompson

After working for the Pennsylvania State Relief, teaching, and attending what is now the New York Theological Seminary, Mary went to Egypt in 1939 as a missionary for the Presbyterian Church and became a teacher at the American Mission School in Tanta.

North American Congress on Latin America

Sources of income included newsletter sales (about $200 per month) and grants from the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church the Division of Youth Ministries of the National Council of Churches and the UCM.

Presbyterian Foundation

The Presbyterian Church Foundation is a foundation that raises money for the Presbyterian Church in the United States.

William Osborn McDowell

They had seven children: Pauline T. McDowell Akins (b. 1874), Nora McDowell Culver (d. 1944), fraternal twins Rachel Kollock McDowell (1880–1949) and Malcolm McDowell (1880–1920), William Timanus McDowell, Ezra Osborne McDowell (1886–1979) and Eulilee McDowell Cook, whom they reared in the Presbyterian Church.


see also

A Call for Unity

Edward V. Ramage, Moderator, Synod of the Alabama Presbyterian Church in the United States

Association of Reformed Institutions of Higher Education

Covenant College (Lookout Mountain, Georgia) is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America,

Bert E. Salisbury

He was married on September 20, 1930, to Dorothy MacMillan, daughter of E. J. McMillan, well known in Canton, New York in South Presbyterian Church in Syracuse.

Brick Presbyterian Church

Brick Chapel Church and Cemetery, Canton, New York, a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery

Byron Sunderland

In 1843, Sunderland became pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Batavia, New York.

Chad Van Dixhoorn

He retains a visiting fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and has served as associate minister of Cambridge Presbyterian Church and Grace Presbyterian Church in Vienna, Virginia.

Cumberland Presbytery

History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky to 1988, by Matthew H. Gore, Joint Heritage Committee of Covenant and Cumberland Presbyteries.

Diogenes Allen

He was ordained in what is now the Presbyterian Church (USA) and called to a pastorate in Windham, New Hampshire.

Domasi

The Shallow Well Project funded by the First Presbyterian Church of Urbana in Urbana, Illinois, United States is providing safe drinking water for the villages around Domasi.

First Presbyterian Church of Dallas

First Presbyterian Church of Dallas was founded February 3, 1856, by the Rev. Robert Hamilton Byers, stated supply pastor for Presbyterian churches in Rusk and Henderson counties.

Fratelli Ruffatti

The company is well known for the high profile instruments it has installed over the years - such as the organ at the Crystal Cathedral, the organ at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Fátima, Portugal, and the 117-rank organ designed by Diane Bish for the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Free Kirk

The Free Church of Scotland, an evangelical presbyterian church formed in 1843 when its founders withdrew from the Church of Scotland, also known as the Kirk.

Hans Uwe Hielscher

In 1985 he worked at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles in exchange with Samuel Swartz, and he has been teaching at the University of Redlands in California since 1986.

Isaac J. Lansing

He later served as pastor of the Green Ridge Presbyterian Church in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

James A. Macdonald

He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1891 and assigned to Knox Presbyterian Church in St. Thomas.

James Seaton Reid

Reid published in 1824 a ‘Brief Account of the Irish Presbyterian Church in the Form of Question and Answer;’ ‘The Sabbath, a Tract for the Times;’ and ‘Seven Letters to Dr. Elrington, Professor of Divinity in Trinity College, Dublin, “occasioned by his Animadversions in his ‘Life of Ussher’ on certain Passages in the History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland,”’ Glasgow, 1849 (addressed to Charles Richard Elrington).

Living Waters

Living Waters for the World, a mission resource of the Synod of Living Waters of the Presbyterian Church (USA)

Loughgall

W. R. Rodgers (1909 – 1969), probably best known as a poet, was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1935 and was first appointed to Loughgall Presbyterian Church, Loughgall, where he was minister for 12 years.

Maria Louisa Bustill

Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson (November 8, 1853 – January 20, 1904) was a Quaker schoolteacher; the wife of the Reverend William Drew Robeson of Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey and the mother of Paul Robeson and his siblings.

Mariano Di Gangi

A chapter in Tenth Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia: 175 Years of Thinking and Acting Biblically by Philip Ryken deals with Di Gangi's pastorate of that church, where he was preceded by Donald Grey Barnhouse and succeeded by James Montgomery Boice.

Marvin Vincent

Vincent graduated from Columbia University in 1851, taught in the Columbia Grammar School, was professor of classics in the Troy Methodist University from 1858 to 1862; then acting pastor of the Pacific Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Brooklyn from 1862 to 1863; and pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Troy, New York, from 1863 to 1873.

Matthew H. Gore

He is best known for his book The History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky to 1988 (2000), but has published on a variety of topics as diverse as The Origin of Marvelman (a British superhero of the 1950s and 1960s), the relative scarcity of East German philatelics, and the biography of British pulp artist, Denis McLoughlin.

Metropolitan Area Youth Symphony

In its inaugural season, the MAYS has played concerts at Knowles Memorial Chapel on the campus of Rollins College, First Presbyterian Church of Orlando, the Cathedral Church of Saint Luke, and collaborated with the Geneva School Rhetoric Choir, the Cathedral Choir, the Orlando Deanery Boychoir and Girls Choir, and Lake Howell High School’s band and chorus as part of their Masterworks Series.

Napranum, Queensland

Formerly known as Weipa South, Napranum was established in 1898 by Moravian missionaries on behalf of the Presbyterian church.

Neighbourhoods in Regina, Saskatchewan

On the perimeter of the West End on Albert Street is First Presbyterian Church, built in 1926 and founded by non-concurring dissidents from Westminster, Knox and Carmichael United Churches who objected to their several Presbyterian Church congregations' entry into the United Church of Canada — all Regina Presbyterian congregations had entered into the United Church.

North Presbyterian Church

Franklin Avenue Presbyterian Church, Lansing, Michigan, NRHP-listed, also known as "North Presbyterian Church"

Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, Buffalo, New York, also known as "North Presbyterian Church", NRHP-listed in Erie County

NWAC

New Wineskins Association of Churches, a group of about 200 Presbyterian churches in conflict with the Presbyterian Church (US)

Oakbank, Manitoba

In 1901, a Presbyterian church was moved to the community and a Baptist church built in 1908.

Old Broad Street Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

Old Broad Street Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic church on Broad (New Jersey Route 49) and Lawrence Streets in Bridgeton, Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States.

Old Presbyterian Church

First Presbyterian Church (disambiguation, includes several named "Old First Presbyterian Church")

Orthodox Presbyterian Church

In 1922, Harry Emerson Fosdick, a prominent modernist Baptist serving as a pastor at First Presbyterian Church in New York City, delivered a sermon entitled "Shall the Fundamentalists Win"?

Presbyterian Church of McGraw

Presbyterian Church of McGraw is a historic Presbyterian church located at McGraw in Cortland County, New York.

Presbyterian High School

It has affiliations with Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School, Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Primary School, Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School, Saint Andrew's Junior College, Ang Mo Kio Presbyterian Church and Bethel Presbyterian Church.

Reformed Presbyterian Church, General Synod

Eventually, thanks to influence of newer people in the denomination such as Gordon Clark, discussions began with the Bible Presbyterian Church-Columbus Synod, which included members such as Francis Schaeffer and Jay E. Adams.

Robert B. McNeill

In 1954, the southern branch of the Presbyterian Church, was considering rejoining the northern, and ending the split existing since the Civil War.

Salomão Barbosa Ferraz

Salomão Barbosa Ferraz (18 February 1880 in Jaú, Brazil – 11 May 1969) was a Brazilian priest and Bishop whose career took him through membership of several Christian denominations from the Presbyterian Church through to the Roman Catholic Church.

Second Presbyterian Church

Second Ballyeaston Presbyterian Church, a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland

SFTS

San Francisco Theological Seminary - Graduate school affiliated with Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) located in San Anselmo, California

St. Paul's-Avenue Road United Church

With church union in 1925, it became St. Paul's United and in 1930 it merged with the nearby Avenue Road (formerly Presbyterian Church) and became St. Paul's-Avenue Road United.

Stephen Winchester Dana

He was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Belvidere, New Jersey, from November, 1866, till July, 1868, when he was called to the Walnut street church in West Philadelphia, which grew steadily under his pastoral care and earnest preaching.

Texana Presbyterian Church

Texana Presbyterian Church is a historic church at Apollo Drive and Country Club Lane in Edna, Texas.

Thomas Cogan

In 1759 he was in the Netherlands, where he found that the Rev. Benjamin Sowden, the English minister of the presbyterian church at Rotterdam, supported by the English and Dutch governments with two pastors, required a substitute; Cogan applied for and obtained the place.

Tomales Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

Tomales Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church at 11 Church Street in Tomales, California.

W. Kerr Scott

Scott died in Burlington, North Carolina on April 16, 1958 and is buried in Hawfields Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Mebane, North Carolina.

Wekiva Presbyterian Church

Wekiva Presbyterian Church draws its members from Longwood, Altamonte Springs, Apopka, Lake Mary, Heathrow, Maitland, and Orlando.

Westminster Presbyterian Church in the United States

The Westminster Presbyterian Church in the United States (WPCUS) is a small Presbyterian denomination which was constituted in January 2006 in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania.

Yu Guozhen

In 1894, the North American Presbyterian missionary John Farnham took holiday leave and returned home, handing over the pastoral responsibility of a Shanghai Presbyterian church congregation on Hanyang road to pastor Yu.