Draft:List of Confessional Protestant denominations in North America
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Comment: This is going to require significantly better sourcing. Stuartyeates (talk) 18:25, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
Confessional Protestant denominations are conservative churches that subscribe to particular confessions of faith. They are considered a third church type,[1] other than liberal/mainline and evangelical.
Anglican
Confessional Anglicans adhere to the 39 Articles of Religion. They are often also Continuing Anglicans.
- Anglican Church in North America (ACNA)
- Anglican Province of America (APA)
- Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMiA)
- Reformed Episcopal Church (REC)
Baptist
Confessional Baptists adhere to the First or Second London Confession.
- Mid-America Reformed Baptist Association of Churches
- Southeast Association of Confessional Baptists
- Southern California Association of Reformed Baptist Churches
- Sovereign Grace Churches
- Sovereign Grace Fellowship of Canada
- Texas Area Association of Reformed Baptist Churches
Lutheran
Confessional Lutherans adhere to the Book of Concord, the historic collection of Lutheran creeds and catechisms.
- Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS)
- Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS)
- Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS)
- American Association of Lutheran Churches (AALC)
- Church of the Lutheran Confession (CLC)
- Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America (ELDoNA)
- Concordia Lutheran Conference (CLC)
- Conservative Lutheran Association (CLA)
- Evangelical Lutheran Conference & Ministerium of North America (ELCM)
- Lutheran Church – Canada (LCC)
- Lutheran Church – International (LC-I)
- Lutheran Churches of the Reformation (LCR)
- Lutheran Conference of Confessional Fellowship (LCCF)
- Lutheran Ministerium and Synod – USA (LMS-USA)
- North American Lutheran Church (NALC)
- United Lutheran Mission Association (ULMA)
Presbyterian
Confessing Presbyterian denominations adhere to the Westminster Standards.
- Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)
- Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC)
- Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARPC)
- Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA)
- Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC)
- Covenant Presbyterian Church (CPC)
- Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church (CRPC)
- American Presbyterian Church
- Free Presbyterian Church of North America (FPCNA)
- Evangel Presbytery
- Faith Presbytery, Bible Presbyterian Church
- ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians
Continental Reformed
Reformed churches adhere to the Three Forms of Unity.
Dutch
- Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA)
- Protestant Reformed Churches in America (PRCA)
- Heritage Reformed Congregations (HRC)
- Netherlands Reformed Congregations (NRC)
- Reformed Congregations in North America
- Free Reformed Churches in North America (FRCNA)
- Alliance of Reformed Churches (ARC)
German
Hungarian
Pan-Reformed
These denominations adhere to confessions from multiple traditions, or leave the particular confession of subscription to the discretion of the local church.
- Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC)
- Covenanting Association of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches (CARPC)
References
- ^ "Protestantism's Lost Soul". Theopolis Institute. 2015-08-18. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
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