The Church Today
The headquarters of the church are at Assembly Buildings, Fisherwick Place, Belfast, which were extensively renovated as part of a multi-million pound project in 2010-2012. The Presbyterian Church in Ireland, a founding member of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, has 540 congregations in 19 presbyteries across Ireland. The church's two nineteenth century theological colleges, Magee College (Derry) and Assembly's College (Belfast), merged in 1978 to form Union Theological College in Belfast. Union offers post-graduate education to the denomination's candidates for the full-time ministry.
Until 2007 the church was connected to a credit union, Presbyterian Mutual, that collapsed with the savings of almost 10,000 members, almost all of whom were also members of the church.
The PCI is involved in education, evangelism, social service and mission in a number of areas around the world;
- India
- China (see also: Irish Presbyterian Mission)
- The Middle East
- Jamaica
- Africa
- Indonesia
- Nepal
- Brazil
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