Presbyterian Church in Ireland

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The Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI; Irish: Eaglais Phreispitéireach in Éirinn; Ulster-Scots: Prisbytairin Kirk in Airlann) is the largest representative in Ireland of the Scottish reformed tradition of Christianity. Drawing on the liturgy and confession of the 17th-century Scottish Kirk, the Church, until the 19th century, contended with the disabilities imposed on "dissent" from the Anglican communion of the established Church of Ireland. After a series of secessions and re-alignments, the Church emerged in the 20th century as the largest Protestant denomination in Northern Ireland. Sharing in the general decline of Christian church attendance, and marked this century by divisions on abortion and same-sex marriage, the Church, by its own estimates has seen a 50 percent decline in membership from a peak in the early 1970s. The Church suggests that it has "around 185,000" members, including nine to ten thousand in the Republic of Ireland. The Church's "500 plus" congregations are...

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