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! ====Northern Africa==== * [[Presbyterian Church in Sudan|The Presbyterian Church of South Sudan and Sudan]], founded in 1902 by American missionaries in [[Malakal]], was deprived of foreign pastors since 1962 by decision of the Sudanese government but it continued to grow. It is now the 3rd largest Christian church in Sudan with 1,000,000 members, now shared between [[Sudan]] and [[South Sudan]].<ref name = PCSSS>{{cite web | url = https://www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/presbyterian-church-of-the-sudan | publisher = the website of the [[World Council of Churches]] | title = Presbyterian Church of South Sudan and Sudan | date = January 1965 | access-date = September 14, 2018 | archive-date = 18 November 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181118184224/https://www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/presbyterian-church-of-the-sudan | url-status = live }}.</ref> * The [[Sudan Evangelical Presbyterian Church|Presbyterian Evangelical Church of Sudan]] was founded in the north of the country and in Khartoum by the same American missionaries in the late 19th century but left under the guidance of Egyptian evangelical pastors of Coptic origin.<ref name = PCSSS/> In addition, there are a number of Presbyterian Churches in north Africa, the most known is the Nile Synod in Egypt and a recently founded synod for Sudan. 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