A new denomination was born last week. The General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in North America (membership: 251,244) approved plans to merge with the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (membership: 2,809,603). The resulting 3,000,000-member body, which will officially begin its existence at a convention in Pittsburgh next May, will be known as the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. Only one other major Presbyterian body remains in the U.S.the southern Presbyterian Church of the U.S. (810,917 members).
The two groups have long been in the process of mergingthis is their third try and have no essential doctrinal...
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