Calvinist denomination founded by Ian Paisley in 1951
Distinct from Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland and Free Church of Scotland (post 1900)
Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster
Classification
Protestant
Orientation
Fundamentalist Calvinism
Polity
Presbyterian
Moderator
John Armstrong
Associations
Whitefield College of the Bible
Region
mainly Northern Ireland but also Great Britain, Republic of Ireland and the Isle of Man[1]
Founder
Ian Paisley
Origin
17 March 1951 Crossgar, Northern Ireland
Separated from
Presbyterian Church in Ireland
Separations
FPCNA
Congregations
61 (Northern Ireland)[2]
22 (elsewhere)[3]
Members
15,000
Official website
www.freepresbyterian.org
The Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster is a Calvinist denomination founded by Ian Paisley in 1951.[note 1] Doctrinally, the church describes itself as fundamentalist, evangelical, and separatist, and is part of the reformed fundamentalist movement. Most of its members live in Northern Ireland, where the church is headquartered, and in County Donegal. The church has additional congregations in the Republic of Ireland, Great Britain and Australia,[3] and a sister denomination in North America, the Free Presbyterian Church of North America, which has congregations in Canada and the United States. It also has a sister denomination in Nepal which was formed from the Nepal mission to the Unreached in November 2013.[4]
John Armstrong was Deputy Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church, and became Moderator in 2020, with Colin Mercer from Omagh as Deputy Moderator; Armstrong succeeded Gordon Dane, minister of the founding church in Crossgar.
^"Free Presbyterian Churches". Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster. Archived from the original on 9 August 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2014.
^"Church List". Presbyterian Church of Ulster. Archived from the original on 9 August 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
^ ab"Free Presbyterian Church Information Page". Free Presbyterian Church. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
^"Nepal" (PDF). FPC Mission. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
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