Evangelical Protestant Christian denomination in Brazil
Presbyterian Church of Brazil
Classification
Protestant
Orientation
Conservative Calvinist
Theology
Evangelical Reformed
Polity
Presbyterian
Moderator
Rev. Roberto Brasileiro President of the Supreme Council
Associations
World Reformed Fellowship
Region
Brazil
Founder
Rev. Ashbel Green Simonton
Origin
August 12th, 1859 Rio de Janeiro
Branched from
Presbyterian Church in the United States
Separations
1903: Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil;
1956: Fundamentalist Presbyterian Church in Brazil;
1968: Renewed Presbyterian Church in Brazil;
1978: United Presbyterian Church of Brazil;
1993: Traditional Presbyterian Church in Brazil;
1995: Presbyterian Church of Grace;
1997: Revived Reformed Presbyterian Church of Brazil;
2000: Reformed Presbyterian Church of Brazil
Congregations
5,420 (2021)
Members
702,949 (2021)
Ministers
4,915 (2021)
Sculpture in front of the Presbyterian Church of Rio de Janeiro representing the first Protestant eucharist realized in Brazil.
The Presbyterian Church of Brazil (Portuguese: Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil, or IPB, PCB in English) is an Evangelical Protestant Christian denomination in Brazil. It is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the country, having an estimate 702,949 members, 4,915 ordained ministers and 5,420 churches and parishes.[1][2] It is also the only Presbyterian denomination in Brazil present in all 26 States and the Federal District.[citation needed]
The Church was founded by the American missionary Rev. Ashbel Green Simonton, who also oversaw the formal organization of the first congregation (Presbyterian Church of Rio de Janeiro) and the first Presbytery (Presbytery of Rio de Janeiro).[3]
The original Church in Rio de Janeiro was formally organized in January 1863. The Church then left the jurisdiction of the American church 1888, when the Synod was formed. The denomination considers the date of Simonton's arrival in Brazil, 12 August, 1859, as its foundation date.[4]
^"Statistics of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil of 2021". Retrieved 15 August 2022.
^"Primeira Igreja Presbiteriana de Belo Horizonte" (PDF).
^Cite error: The named reference ipb.org.br was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Ipb - Sesquicentenário". Archived from the original on 2010-01-08. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
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