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Article: What's in a name? (You Were Asking?).(The Presbyterian Church in Canada)(Brief Article)
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- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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question: Why is our church referred to as The Presbyterian Church in Canada and not as The Presbyterian Church of Canada? Is it because it is a branch church of a parent in the United Kingdom, or is it because it was a branch church when it first came to Canada?
Various Presbyterian churches found their way into Canada, reflecting the divisions in the church in Scotland.
There was "The Presbyterian Church of Canada in connection with the Church of Scotland" established as a synod in 1831. This church was divided in 1844 by the "Disruption," as it was called, which had begun the previous year in Scotland. This resulted in the founding of the Presbyterian ...