List of Presbyterian and Reformed denominations in North America

This is a list of Presbyterian and Reformed denominations in North America.

Presbyterian denominations

Historical chart of Presbyterian denominations in the United States

Larger Presbyterian denominations

• Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church - around 22,459 members (2018) ^[1] - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist, Covenanter & Seceder
• Bible Presbyterian Church - around 3,500 members - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist
• partially: Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches - around 15,000 members - Evangelical/Orthodox, Dutch Reformed/Presbyterian, Calvinist
• Cumberland Presbyterian Church - around 65,087 members (2019) ^[2] - Liberal, Presbyterian, Arminian
• Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America - around 6,500 members - Liberal, Presbyterian, Arminian
• Evangelical Assembly of Presbyterian Churches in America- 73 churches in the USA - formed by churches of Korean and Chinese origin.
• ECO (Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians) - more than 129,765 members, 320 churches and 500 Pastors (2018) ^[3] - Evangelical, Presbyterian ^{[4] [5]}
• Evangelical Presbyterian Church - around 122,216 members (2018) ^[6] - Evangelical, Presbyterian, Charismatic ^[7]
• Korean-American Presbyterian Church - around 53,000 members - Conservative Evangelical, Korean-Presbyterian, Calvinist
• National Presbyterian Church in Mexico - around 2,800,000 members ^[8] - Conservative Calvinist
• Korean Presbyterian Church Abroad - around 55,000 members - Progressive Evangelical, Korean-Presbyterian
• Orthodox Presbyterian Church - around 31,472 members (2019) ^[9] - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist
• Presbyterian Church in America - around 383,338 members (2020) ^[10] - Evangelical, Presbyterian, Calvinist ^[11]
• Presbyterian Church in Canada - around 225,000 members - Presbyterian
• Presbyterian Church (USA) - around 1,140,665 members (2022) - Liberal, Presbyterian ^[12]
• Presbyterian Reformed Church of Mexico - 26,000 members ^[13] - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist
• Reformed Church in America - around 190,000 members -Liberal, Presbyterian, formerly Dutch Reformed Church
• Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America - around 7,800 members - Orthodox, Exclusive Psalmody, A cappella, Covenanter, Presbyterian, Calvinist
• partially: United Church of Canada - around 388,000 members (as of 12/31/2018) - Liberal, Presbyterian & Congregational & Methodist ^[14]
• World Korean Presbyterian Church - around 300 churches - Conservative Fundamentalist, Korean-Presbyterian, Calvinist

Smaller Presbyterian denominations

• American Presbyterian Church - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist
• Covenant Presbyterian Church - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist
• Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church - Orthodox, 1646 Westminster Confession, Presbyterian, Calvinist ^[15]
• Evangel Presbytery - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist
• Faith Presbytery, Bible Presbyterian Church
• Free Presbyterian Church - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist
• Independent Presbyterian Church in Mexico - 2,500 members and 35 congregations - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist
• National Conservative Presbyterian Church in Mexico - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist
• Puritan Reformed Church
• Reformed Presbyterian Church - Hanover Presbytery - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist
• Reformed Presbyterian Church General Assembly - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist
• Reformed Presbytery in North America - Orthodox, Covenanter Presbyterian, Calvinist
• Upper Cumberland Presbyterian Church - less than 1000 members - Conservative, Presbyterian, Four-Point Calvinist
• Vanguard Presbytery - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist

Korean Presbyterian denominations

• Korean-American Presbyterian Church
• Korean Presbyterian Church in America (Kosin)
• Korean Presbyterian Church Abroad
• Korean Evangelical Presbyterian Church in America
• World Korean Presbyterian Church

Scottish Presbyterian denominations

• Free Church of Scotland - has 9 congregations in North America
• Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) - has 8 congregations in the USA
• Associated Presbyterian Churches - has 1 congregation in Vancouver
• Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland - has 3 congregations in the US and Canada

Chart of splits and mergers of North American Presbyterian churches ^[16]

Splits and mergers of North American Presbyterian churches

Irish Presbyterians Scottish Presbyterians English Presbyterians Presbyterian independent congregations (1700s) Presbytery of Philadelphia (1706) Synod of Philadelphia (1717) The Old Side–New Side controversy Conjunct Presbyteries [17] (1741) First Great Awakening Presbytery of New York (1745) Synod of New York (1745) Reformed Presbytery (1752) [18] Associate Presbytery in America (1753) Synod of N.Y. & Phila. (1758) Associate Reformed Synod (1782) Associate Synod of North America (1782) PC-USA (1789) Left Presbyterianism and founded the Restoration movement RPCNA (1798) [19] Second Great Awakening Springfield Presbytery (1803) Southern Synod (1931) Northern Synod (1831) CPC (1810) The Old School–New School controversy RPC-GS (1833) PC-USA (Old School) (1837) New School (1837) UPCNA (1858) United Synod (South) (1858) North-South divide PC-CSA (1861) PCUS (1864) PC-USA (1869) CPCA (1869) PC-USA (1906) Fundamentalist–modernist controversy OPC (1936) BPC (1937) EPC (1956) UPCUSA (1958) RPCES (1965) PCA (1973) EPC (1981) PCA (1982) PC(USA) (1983) RPCUSA (1983) RPC-HP (1991) RPC-GA (1991) ARPC (1994) PCA (1997) RPC-HP (2006) CPC (2006) ECO (2012) VP (2020)

Congregational denominations

• partially: United Church of Canada - ~2,800,000 members - Liberal, Presbyterian & Congregational & Methodist
• partially: United Church of Christ - 712,296 members and 4,603 churches - Liberal, German Reformed & Congregational ^[20]
• National Association of Congregational Christian Churches - ~35,000 members and 300 churches
• Conservative Congregational Christian Conference - ~41,000 members and 300 churches- Evangelical, Congregational
• Congregational Christian Churches in Canada - ~7,000 members - Evangelical, Congregational
• Evangelical Association of Reformed and Congregational Christian Churches

US Congregational Family Tree

National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States 1865

Christian Connection 1810

Evangelical Synod of North America 1872

Reformed Church in the United States 1725 (Eureka Synod excepted from merger)

Congregational Christian Churches 1931

Evangelical and Reformed Church 1934

Conservative Congregational Christian Conference 1948

National Association of Congregational Christian Churches 1955

United Church of Christ 1957

Evangelical Association of Reformed and Congregational Christian Churches 1998

Note that ESNA, RCUS and E&R churches held to presbyterian polity.

European Reformed denominations

Episcopal/Anglican Reformed denominations

• Reformed Episcopal Church - around 13,000 members - Orthodox, Episcopal/Anglican, Calvinistic
• Traditional Protestant Episcopal Church - Orthodox, Episcopal/Anglican
• Anglican Mission in the Americas
• Anglican Church in North America
• Reformed Anglican Church
• United Episcopal Church of North America

Dutch Reformed denominations

• Alliance of Reformed Churches - 125 churches - Evangelical, Conservative, Dutch Reformed, Calvinistic
• Christian Reformed Church in North America - around 245,217 members - Evangelical, Conservative, Dutch Reformed, Calvinistic, Egalitarian (women can assume any church office)
• Evangelical Reformed Church in America - Conservative, Evangelical, Calvinist, Orthodox, Dutch Reformed
• Kingdom Network - 5 churches - Evangelical, Conservative, Dutch Reformed, Calvinistic
• Reformed Church in America - around 240,000 members - Liberal & Conservative, Dutch Reformed
• United Reformed Churches in North America - around 23,302 members - Orthodox, Dutch Reformed, Calvinistic
• Canadian and American Reformed Churches - around 17,729 members - Orthodox, Dutch Reformed, Calvinistic
• partially: Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches - around 15,000 members - Evangelical/Orthodox, Dutch Reformed/Presbyterian, Calvinistic
• Netherlands Reformed Congregations - around 10,790 members - Puritan, Dutch Reformed, Calvinistic
• Reformed Congregations in North America
• Protestant Reformed Churches in America - around 8,055 members - Orthodox, Dutch Reformed, strictly Calvinistic
• Free Reformed Churches in North America - around 4,689 members - Orthodox, Dutch Reformed, Calvinistic
• Heritage Reformed Congregations - around 2,000 members - Puritan, Dutch Reformed, Calvinistic
• Orthodox Christian Reformed Church - around 1,500 members - Orthodox, Dutch Reformed, Calvinistic

German and French Reformed denominations

Franklin Square burial ground plaque for the German Reformed Church of the United Church of Christ

• partially: United Church of Christ - around 712,000 members - Liberal, German Reformed & Congregational
• French Protestant (Huguenot) Church, Charleston, SC——The only French Calvinist or Huguenot congregation still existing in the United States.
• Reformed Church in the United States - around 5,000 members - Orthodox, German Reformed, Calvinistic
• L'Église réformée du Québec (Reformed Church of Quebec) - around 500 members - Orthodox, French Reformed, Calvinistic

Other European Reformed denominations

• Hungarian Reformed Church of America - around 10,500 members - Conservative, Hungarian Reformed
• Calvin Synod - United Church of Christ - around 3,500 members - Conservative, Hungarian Reformed
• Lithuanian Evangelical Reformed Church - Liberal, Lithuanian Reformed

Chart of splits and mergers of North American Continental Reformed and Congregationalist churches

Splits and mergers of North American Continental Reformed and Congregationalist churches

English Independent Puritans Pilgrims (1610s) Congregationalist churches (1620s) Dutch Reformed Church in America (1628) Congregations became unitarian and separated RCUS [21] (1793) RCA (1819) AUA (1825) CRC [22] (1857) NCCCUS (1865) CRC [23] (1882) NRC [24] (1907) PRC [25] (1924) CC [26] CCC (1931) ESNA [27] E&R (1934) Eureka Classis [28] (1934) CCCC [29] (1948) CanRC [30] (1950) FRCNA [31] (1950) OPRC [32] (1953) NACCC [28] (1955) UCC (1957) CRCNA (1961) RCNA [33] (1967) OCRC [29] (1979) RCUS (1985) HRC (1993) URCNA [34] (1996) EARCCC [35] (2005) URCNA (2008) ARC [35] (2021)

Reformed Baptist

• Reformed Baptist
• Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America www.arbca.com
• Fellowship of Independent Reformed Evangelicals www.firefellowship.org
• Primitive Baptists

Reformed Charismatic

• Sovereign Grace Churches
• Newfrontiers in the United States

Uniting and United denominations

• United Church of Canada - around 2,800,000 members - Liberal, Presbyterian & Congregational & Methodist
• United Church of Christ - around 712,000 members - Liberal, German Reformed & Congregational ^[36]
• Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches - around 15,000 members - Evangelical/Orthodox, Dutch Reformed/Presbyterian, Calvinistic

Other

• New Calvinism

See also

• American Presbyterianism
• List of Reformed churches

References

1. "Minutes of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (USA) 2020 Synod" (PDF). Retrieved July 23, 2021.
2. "2020 Cumberland Presbyterian Church Statistics, page 29" (PDF). 2020. Retrieved July 19, 2022.
3. Allin, Dana (September 30, 2019). "One Measure of a Flourishing Church: Our Mutual Spurring". Archived from the original on September 24, 2020. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
4. Lee, James (16 October 2017). "Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) - PC(USA) leaders report on talks with ECO".
5. Lee, James. "Membership".
6. "Minute of 41ª General Assembly of Evangelical Presbyterian Church" (PDF). Retrieved 2021-07-27.
7. ABOUT THE EPC Evangelical Presbyterian Church
8. http://www.executivaipb.com.br/Atas_CE_SC/SC/SC%202010/doc31_320.pdf ^{[ bare URL PDF ]}
9. "2020 Orthodox Presbyterian Church General Assembly Report" (PDF). December 31, 2019. p. 284. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
10. "PCA Statistics Five Year Summary".
11. Lee, James. "PCA Statistics".
12. "Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) - PC(USA) church membership still in decline". May 2023.
13. "Iglesia Presbiteriana Reformada de México : Presbiterios". Archived from the original on 2013-06-27. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
14. United Church Statistics United Church of Canada
15. "Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church". www.covref.org. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
16. Much of this is based on Presbyterian Family Connections. Deviations are footnoted.
17. The "New Side"
18. Reformed Online
19. Reformed Online
20. "SUMMARY STATISTICS 1955 - 2022" (PDF). United Church of Christ. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
21. The german congregations separated from the dutch oversight and adopted their own constitution
22. Newly founded immigrant congregations were displeased with RCA practices (open communion, use of hymns as well as not supporting the 1834 secession)
23. Some congregations left RCA after the denomination decided to allow members to join the Freemasons
24. Affiliated with GerGem
25. Objected to common grace as defined by the CRC
26. A restorationist denomination
27. A german protestant denomination with roots in the prussian union
28. Objected to the merger
29. Objected to liberal tendencies in the denomination
30. Initially affiliated with GKV
31. Affiliated with CGKN
32. Another split over the issue of common grace
33. Affiliated with GGiN
34. Objected to women ordination
35. Objected to same-sex marriage
36. "A statistical profile 2020:Research from the ucc center for analytics, research and data (CARD) – United Church of Christ" (PDF). Retrieved January 28, 2022.

External links

• Reformed-Online
• http://naparc.org/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20141111183209/http://www.tateville.com/churches.html
• http://reformednet.us