Cumberland Presbyterian Church
The Cumberland Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian denomination spawned by the Second Great Awakening. In 2019, it had 65,087 members and 673 congregations, of which 51 were located outside of the United States. The word Cumberland comes from the Cumberland River valley where the church was founded.
| 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 |
| 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) |
| Members | 65,087 (2019) |
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