Evangelical Presbyterian Church (Australia)
The Evangelical Presbyterian Church is a small Reformed Christian denomination. In September 2010 it had five centres - Brisbane, Londonderry (Sydney), Cohuna, Vic. (preaching station), Launceston and Winnaleah (NE Tasmania) with a small school at Herrick near Winnaleah.
The EPC was constituted in Launceston, Tasmania on 29 September 1961 with a doctrinal basis identical to the Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia, three of whose ministers formed a special Presbytery for the purpose of ordaining the first three ministers. Its first ministers Reverends Charles Rodman, Eric Turnbull and Hugh McNeilly had been ordained the previous night.
The denomination was originally called the Reformed Evangelical Church, but in 1966 changed its name because according to the church's official history "it was found that Australian society was not familiar with the term 'reformed' in its historical and church connection. Many associated the word with reform or correctional schools for example."
The creation of the EPC was part of a revival in Reformed and Calvinist theology among Australian evangelical Christians from the 1950s.
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