Evangelical Reformed Presbyterian Church
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|theology = Calvinist Evangelical
|orientation = Reformed
|polity = Presbyterian
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|founded_date = 2006
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|separated_from = Presbyterian Church in America and Orthodox Presbyterian Church
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The Evangelical Reformed Presbyterian Church (ERPC) was a denomination Presbyterian, formed in 2006, by churches that separate of Presbyterian Church in America and Orthodox Presbyterian Church, on the charge that both denominations would be tolerant of the Federal Vision of Covenant Theology.{{cite web| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111183209/http://www.tateville.com/churches.html|archivedate=November 11, 2014|url=http://www.tateville.com/churches.html | title = Report on Presbyterian Denominations in the United States|date=February 15, 2014| url-status=usurped|accessdate = January 21, 2022}}
In 2015 the denomination dissolved and its churches became independent.{{cite web|url=https://covenantchurchhatboro.com/aboutus | title = History of the Covenant Presbyterian Church in Hatboro|accessdate = January 21, 2022}}
History
The Presbyterian churches originate from the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. It is the Christian churches Protestant that adhere to Reformed theology and whose form of ecclesiastical organization is characterized by the government of an assembly of elders. Government Presbyterian is common in Protestant churches that were modeled after the Reformation Protestant Switzerland, notably in Switzerland, Scotland, Netherlands, France and portions of Prussia, of Ireland and, later, of United States.
In 2006, a group of churches split from Presbyterian Church in America and Orthodox Presbyterian Church, on the charge that both denominations would be tolerant of the Federal Vision of Covenant Theology. Together these churches constituted the Evangelical Reformed Presbyterian Church.{{cite web|url=https://opcgaminutes.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2013-GA-80-red..pdf| title = Minutes of the General Assembly of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church|page=313|date=June 5, 2013|accessdate = January 21, 2022}}
The denomination reached 6 churches in 2015. However, in October of the same year the IPRE was dissolved and its churches became independent since so.{{cite web|url=https://www.stratfordpres.org/new-here/| title = History of Stratford Presbyterian Church |accessdate = January 21, 2022}}
Doctrine
The denomination subscribed to the Westminster Confession of Faith, Westminster Larger Catechism and Westminster Shorter Catechism.
References
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