Ivan Foster

The Rev. Ivan Foster
Personal
Born1943
County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
ReligionFree Presbyterian
NationalityBritish
Organization
ChurchBethel Free Presbyterian Church (1968 - 1978)
Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church (1978 - date)
Senior posting
Period in office1967 - date

Ivan Foster (born 1943)[1] is a retired senior minister in the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster and a former Democratic Unionist Party politician. He was a lifelong friend and associate of the Democratic Unionist politician and Free Presbyterian Church leader Ian Paisley, who along with Foster and Peter Robinson, co-founded the organisation Ulster Resistance in 1986 with the aim of importing arms to support loyalist paramilitarism during "the troubles",[2] but in November 2006 he became the most prominent Free Presbyterian to openly challenge Ian Paisley's decision to enter into a power-sharing government with Sinn Féin and went on to denounce Ian Paisley from the pulpit of his church in January 2007.

  1. ^ W.D. Flackes & S. Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-1993, Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1994, p. 165
  2. ^ "Troubled past: the paramilitary connection that still haunts the DUP". the Guardian. 27 June 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2022.