Free Presbyterian Church

Free Presbyterian Church may mean:

  • Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, a breakaway from the Free Church of Scotland
  • Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, sometimes known simply as Free Presbyterian Church, founded by Ian Paisley in 1951.
  • Free Presbyterian Church of North America, formerly part of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, became self-sufficient in 2005.
  • Free Presbyterian Church (Australia)
  • Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria, formerly Free Presbyterian Church of Australia Felix
  • Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia popularly known as the Free Presbyterian Church

Famous quotes containing the words free, presbyterian and/or church:

    People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.
    John Cheever (1912–1982)

    He is a Presbyterian first and an artist second, which is just as comfortable as trying to be a Presbyterian first and a chorus girl second.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

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    Thomas Boswell, U.S. sports journalist. “The Church of Baseball,” Baseball: An Illustrated History, ed. Geoffrey C. Ward, Knopf (1994)