Presbyterian Church in the United States

Presbyterian Church in the United States
ClassificationProtestant
OrientationCalvinist
PolityPresbyterian polity
Origin1861
Separated fromPresbyterian Church in the United States of America (1861)
AbsorbedIndependent Presbyterian Church (1863);
United Synod of the South (1864);
parts of the Associate Reformed Church (1867,1870)
SeparationsPresbyterian Church in America (1973)
Merged intoPresbyterian Church (USA), 1983
Congregations4,250 in 1982
Members814,931 in 1982
Ministers6,077 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).

  1. ^ Presbyterian Church in the United States Denominational Profile. The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA). Retrieved May 26, 2014.