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United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America | |
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Classification | Protestant |
Theology | Reformed |
Polity | Presbyterian |
Region | United States |
Origin | May 28, 1958 Pittsburgh |
Merger of | The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (the "Northern Presbyterians") and the United Presbyterian Church of North America |
Separations | Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) in 1981 |
Merged into | The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (1983) |
Members | 2,351,119 in 1982[1] |
The United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA) was the largest branch of Presbyterianism in the United States from May 28, 1958, to 1983. It was formed by the union of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA), often referred to as the "Northern" Presbyterian Church, with the United Presbyterian Church of North America (UPCNA), a smaller church of Covenanter-Seceder tradition at a conference in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in May 1958. Vigorous ecumenical activity on the part of PCUSA leaders led to this merger, something of a reunion of two long-separated branches of the larger Presbyterian family deriving from the British Isles.