Presbyterian Church in the United States information
1861–1983 Christian denomination
For other entities with similar names, see American Presbyterian Church.
Presbyterian Church in the United States
Classification
Protestant
Orientation
Calvinist
Polity
Presbyterian polity
Origin
1861
Separated from
Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (1861)
Absorbed
Independent Presbyterian Church (1863); United Synod of the South (1864); parts of the Associate Reformed Church (1867,1870)
Separations
Presbyterian Church in America (1973)
Merged into
Presbyterian Church (USA), 1983
Congregations
4,250 in 1982
Members
814,931 in 1982
Ministers
6,077 in 1982[1]
The Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS, originally Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America) was a Protestant denomination in the Southern and border states of the United States that existed from 1861 to 1983. That year, it merged with the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA) to form the Presbyterian Church (USA).
^Presbyterian Church in the United States Denominational Profile. The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA). Retrieved May 26, 2014.
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