Southern Presbyterian Church (Australia)

Southern Presbyterian Church
ClassificationProtestant
OrientationCalvinism
Origin1986
Separated fromEvangelical Presbyterian Church
Congregations2 [1]

The Southern Presbyterian Church[2] is a small denomination with a community of about 130 persons located exclusively in Tasmania, Australia. It formed in 1986 when two ministers (one of whom died a few months later) and a number of members left the Evangelical Presbyterian Church because of a difference of belief over doctrinal issues.

As of 2021, the Southern Presbyterian Church had two congregations: one in Glenorchy and one in Launceston. Public worship is conducted with Scripture reading, preaching, prayer, and the unaccompanied singing of Psalms. The Southern Presbyterian Church uses the King James Version of the Bible in public worship.[3] Its supreme standard is the Bible according to the Received Text, but they, according to Ward and Humphreys, "in other respects are close to the PCEA in orientation"[4] with whom it is exploring closer relations.

  1. ^ Southern Presbyterian Church
  2. ^ Ministryblue: Presbyterian Denominations in Australia, accessed 2010-02-18.
  3. ^ What we believe at www.spc.org.au
  4. ^ Rowland Ward and Robert Humphreys, Religious Bodies in Australia, 3rd edition (Wantirna, Victoria: New Melbourne Press, 1995), 88.