Presbyterianism Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Latin America=== [[File:Catedral Presbiteriana, Rio de Janeiro.jpg|thumb|Presbyterian Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]] Presbyterianism arrived in Latin America in the 19th century. ==== Mexico ==== [[File:IglesiaSionSLP.jpg|thumb|[[National Presbyterian Church in Mexico|National Presbyterian Church]] in the Historic Center of [[San Luis Potosí (city)|San Luis Potosí]], [[Mexico]].]] The biggest Presbyterian church is the [[National Presbyterian Church in Mexico]] (''Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de México''), which has around 2,500,000 members and associates and 3000 congregations, but there are other small denominations like the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Mexico which was founded in 1875 by the Associate Reformed Church in North America. The Independent Presbyterian Church, the Presbyterian Reformed Church in Mexico, and the National Conservative Presbyterian Church in Mexico are existing churches in the Reformed tradition. ==== Brazil ==== In Brazil, the [[Presbyterian Church of Brazil]] (''Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil'') totals approximately 1,011,300 members;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.executivaipb.com.br/site/estatisticas/estatistica_2011.pdf|title=Estatísticas 2011 Dados Estimados|website=Executivaipb.com.br|access-date=30 January 2018|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924004821/http://www.executivaipb.com.br/site/estatisticas/estatistica_2011.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> other Presbyterian churches (Independents, United, Conservatives, Renovated, etc.) in this nation have around 350,000 members. The [[Renewed Presbyterian Church in Brazil]] was influenced by the charismatic movement and has about 131 000 members as of 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.iprb.org.br/inic.htm |title = Igreja Presbiteriana Renovada do Brasil |publisher = IPRB |access-date = 25 May 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161101121902/http://www.iprb.org.br/inic.htm |archive-date = 1 November 2016 }}</ref> The [[Conservative Presbyterian Church in Brazil]] was founded in 1940 and has eight presbyteries.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.ipcb.org.br |title= Igreja Presbiteriana Conservadora do Brasil |publisher= IPCB |access-date= 25 May 2013 |archive-date= 21 May 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130521041043/http://ipcb.org.br/ |url-status= live }}</ref> The Fundamentalist Presbyterian church in Brazil was influenced by [[Carl McIntire]] and the US [[Bible Presbyterian Church]] and has around 1 800 members. The [[Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil]] was founded in 1903 by Rev. Eduardo Carlos Pereira, has 500 congregations and 75 000 members. The [[United Presbyterian Church of Brazil]] has around 4 000 members. There are also ethnic Korean Presbyterian churches in the country. The [[Evangelical Reformed Churches in Brazil]] has Dutch origin. The [[Reformed Churches in Brazil]] were recently founded by the [[Canadian and American Reformed Churches|Canadian Reformed Churches]] with the [[Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated)]]. [[Congregational church|Congregational]] churches present in the country are also part of the Calvinistic tradition in Latin America. ==== Other Latin American states ==== There are probably more than four million members of Presbyterian churches in all of Latin America. Presbyterian churches are also present in Peru, Bolivia, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Argentina, Honduras and others, but with few members. The Presbyterian Church in Belize has 17 churches and church plants and there is a Reformed Seminary founded in 2004. Some Latin Americans in North America are active in the [[Presbyterian Cursillo Movement]]. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page