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History of Presbyterian and Reformed church governance, congregations, ministers, and theology. See the following related collections: Presbyterian General Assemblies; Church buildings; Protestant Reformation; and Sermons. Featured image: Synod of Catawba clergy and lay commissioners.

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Title:
Theological Reflections on the Death Penalty.
Description:
Written by John H. Leith for the PCUS General Assembly Mission Board, 1979. Featured as a chapter in "Pilgrimage of a Presbyterian: Collected Shorter Writings" (2001).
Creator:
Leith, John H. (author), Raynal, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1943- (editor)
Subject names:
Leith, John H., Presbyterian Church in the U.S. General Assembly Mission Board.
Topics:
Capital punishment--Religious aspects--Christianity., Church and social problems--Presbyterian Church., Theology--Study and teaching.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353885
Title:
House of Hope Presbyterian Church, St. Paul, Minnesota.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344124
Title:
Primera Iglesia Presbiteriana Mexicana (El Paso, Tex.) Sunday school teachers, 1911.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: S.S. Teachers Mexican Church El Paso, Texas. 1911.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:343893
Title:
Berean Presbyterian Church, New Orleans, Louisiana.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280600
Title:
Presbyterian Social Witness Policy Compilation
Description:
Compiled by the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy. Includes index.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)--Doctrines., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.--Doctrines., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Doctrines., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy.
Topics:
Church and social problems--Presbyterian Church., Church and the world--Presbyterian Church.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:176522
Title:
Integration of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and the Église Presbyterienne au Congo.
Description:
The Moderator of the General Assembly presents to the Executive Secretary and the Legal Representatives the seal of the Eglise Presbyterienne au Congo, March 1970.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161210
Title:
Integration of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and the Église Presbyterienne au Congo.
Description:
The Moderator of the General Assembly presents to the Executive Secretary and the Legal Representatives the seal of the Eglise Presbyterienne au Congo, March 1970.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions--Archives., Église presbyterienne au Congo., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic), Presbyterian Church--Clergy--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161209
Title:
Integration of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and the Église Presbyterienne au Congo.
Description:
The Moderator of the General Assembly presents to the Executive Secretary and the Legal Representatives the seal of the Eglise Presbyterienne au Congo, March 1970.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions--Archives., Église presbyterienne au Congo., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic), Presbyterian Church--Clergy--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161208
Title:
Integration of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and the Église Presbyterienne au Congo.
Description:
Signing of Integration papers at Luluabourg by Legal Representative Pastor Bakatushipa Pierre and Pastor Nsenda Joseph (Executive Secretary of the Church), March 1970.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions--Archives., Église presbyterienne au Congo., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic), Presbyterian Church--Clergy--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Luluabourg (Congo)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161207
Title:
Integration of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and the Église Presbyterienne au Congo.
Description:
Sign "Follow the Light" carried by Presbyterian school students in Luluabourg, Congo 1970 [March 1970].
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions--Archives., Église presbyterienne au Congo., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions--Educational work--Congo (Democratic Republic), Students--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Luluabourg (Congo)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161206
Title:
Integration of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and the Église Presbyterienne au Congo.
Description:
Women at Luluabourg in uniform singing in parade for Integration, March 1970.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions--Archives., Église presbyterienne au Congo., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic), Parades--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Luluabourg (Congo)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161205
Title:
Integration of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and the Église Presbyterienne au Congo.
Description:
Mr. Mikobi Jacques, Moderator of the Eglise Presbyterienne au Congo, and Dr. R. Matthew Lynn, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., March 1970.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions--Archives., Église presbyterienne au Congo., Jacques, Mikobi., Lynn, R. Matthew., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic), Presbyterian Church--Clergy--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161204
Title:
CEDEC Bulletins on persecution in Colombia, 1952-1957.
Description:
The Evangelical Confederation of Colombia (CEDEC) bulletins detailing Christian persecution and martyrdom in Colombia from March 24, 1952 through December 10, 1957. Bulletins are written in both English and Spanish.
Creator:
Confederación Evangélica de Colombia. (author)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Colombia Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Colombia., Persecution--Colombia., Martyrdom--Christianity--Colombia.
Geographic subjects:
Colombia.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:144813
Title:
Pope marks Polish Christian millennium, 1966.
Description:
Vatican City -- Amid the grandeur of St. Peter's Basilica's main alter, Pope Paul VI addresses a huge congregation at a Mass marking the 1,000th anniversary of Christianity in Poland. Thousands of Polish pilgrims from various parts of the world were gathered in the basilica, along with many church and other dignitaries. Pope Paul criticized as "not justified" the Polish government's refusal to permit a papal visit to millennium observances.
Creator:
United Press International. (photographer)
Subject names:
1897-1978., VI, Paul, Pope, Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano., Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church--History--20th century.
Topics:
Christianity--Poland., Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--Vatican City., Mass.
Geographic subjects:
Vatican City.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139020
Title:
Peacemaking in the family:
Creator:
Rogers, Fred. (author)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Presbyterian Peacemaking Program., Marsh, Barbara.
Topics:
Peace--Study and teaching., Families--Religious life.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:138695
Title:
Robert Ervin Wilson oral history.
Description:
Presbyterian Historical Society Records Archivist David Staniunas interviews Robert E. Wilson, vice-moderator of the 217th Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly in Birmingham, Alabama, 2006. Wilson was born on January 23, 1939 in Gastonia, N.C., and raised in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Barred from professional employment by segregation in North Carolina, Wilson found federal civil service work at the Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, N.J., in 1961. He and Patricia Isles were married on June 17, 1961. The couple joined Ironia Presbyterian Church (Ironia, N.J.) in 1963. Wilson retired from the federal civil service in 1995. In 2001, he served as president of the National Council of Presbyterian Men.
Creator:
Wilson, Robert E., 1939- (interviewee), Staniunas, David. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Wilson, Robert E., 1939-, Gray, Joan S. (Joan Standridge), 1952-
Topics:
African American Presbyterians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116406
Title:
First General Assembly and Celebration of the Independence of the Église Presbytérienne Camerounaise, 1957.
Description:
11 December 1957. Elat, Ebolowa, Cameroon Français. 1st General Assembly of the E.P.C. Celebration of the Independence of the Église Presbytérienne Camerounaise (E.P.C.). Sitting at right, Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Subject names:
Eglise presbytérienne camerounaise., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topics:
Missions--Cameroon--Ebolowa.
Geographic subjects:
Ebolowa (Cameroon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112816
Title:
First General Assembly and Celebration of the Independence of the Église Presbytérienne Camerounaise, 1957.
Description:
11 December 1957. Inauguration of the Independence of the Église Presbytérienne Camerounaise. Elat, Ebolowa, Cameroon Français.
Subject names:
Eglise presbytérienne camerounaise.
Topics:
Missions--Cameroon--Ebolowa.
Geographic subjects:
Ebolowa (Cameroon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112811
Title:
Heidelberg Castle.
Description:
Heidelberg Castle.
Subject names:
Heidelberger Schloss (Heidelberg, Germany)
Topics:
Castles--Germany--Heidelberg.
Geographic subjects:
Heidelberg (Germany)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8187
Title:
The Teaching and practice of Christian stewardship.
Description:
Synods and presbyteries should understand themselves as part of a total national church, contributing responsibly to the church as a whole. United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. The Teaching and practice of Christian stewardship.
Topics:
Christian stewardship.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7513

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