Lutheran World Federation member church in Malaysia
Protestant Church In Sabah
Gereja Protestan Sabah Gorija Protestan Sid Sabah (Rungus)
Logo of the PCS
Classification
Protestant
Orientation
Lutheran
Polity
Presbyterian[1]
Leader
Bishop Justin Sansalu
Associations
Lutheran World Federation, Asia Lutheran Communion, Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Malaysia & Singapore, Council of Churches of Malaysia, Christian Federation of Malaysia, Christian Conference of Asia, World Council of Churches
Region
Malaysia
Origin
1965
Branched from
Basel Missionary Society
Congregations
322
Members
42,000 members baptised[2]
Ministers
56
Primary schools
3
Official website
www.facebook.com/PCSMalaysia/
PCS in Kg. Sulit, Paitan
The Protestant Church in Sabah or PCS (Malay: Gereja Protestan Sabah; Rungus: Gorija Protestan Sid Sabah) is one of the four Lutheran World Federation member churches in Malaysia. It currently has 322 congregations nationwide in 21 parishes[3] with a total of 32,000 baptised members,[4] making the PCS the second largest of the four[5] Lutheran bodies in the country. Its membership is primarily made up of the indigenous peoples of Sabah, with the largest majority being from the Rungus tribe of the native ethnic Kadazan-Dusun population.[3] The current president cum bishop of the Protestant Church in Sabah is Bishop Justin Sansalu.
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^ abAsian Lutheran News: "Lutheran World Federation Regional Office for Asia"; Page 8, Issue 36; November - December 2007; Singapore
^LWF Statistics 2009 Archived 21 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine
^Lutheran World Federation: Member Churches Archived 12 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine - See individual denominational statistics for comparison (URL last accessed 20 December 2007)
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