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Cumberland Presbyterian Church
| Cumberland Presbyterian Church | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Classification | Protestant |
| Orientation | New School Presbyterian |
| Polity | Presbyterian |
| Associations | World Communion of Reformed Churches, World Council of Churches |
| Region | United States, Hong Kong, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Haiti, Brazil, Spain, Australia, the Philippines, Cambodia, Japan, Macau, South Korea[1] |
| Origin | February 4, 1810 Dickson County, Tennessee |
| Separated from | Presbyterian Church in the United States of America |
| Separations | Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America (separated 1878); just over half of the Cumberland Presbyterian congregations rejoined the PCUSA in 1906 |
| Congregations | 673 (2019)[2] |
| Members | 65,087 (2019)[2] |
The Cumberland Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian denomination spawned by the Second Great Awakening.[3] In 2019, it had 65,087 members and 673 congregations,[2] of which 51 were located outside of the United States. The word Cumberland comes from the Cumberland River valley where the church was founded.
- ^ Gore, Susan Knight. "Cumberland Presbyterian Churches". www.cumberland.org. Retrieved 2017-06-03.
- ^ a b c "2020 Cumberland Presbyterian Church Statistics, page 29" (PDF). 2020. Retrieved July 19, 2022.
- ^ Matthew H. Gore, The History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky to 1988, (Memphis, Tennessee: Joint Heritage Committee, 2000).
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