Presbyterian Church in America
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The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is the second-largest Presbyterian church body, behind the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the largest conservative Calvinist denomination in the United States. The PCA is Reformed in theology and presbyterian in government.
The family tree of Presbyterian denominations in the United States, courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society
First Presbyterian Church in Eutaw, Alabama, a historic Southern Presbyterian Church
Bethel Presbyterian Church in Clover, South Carolina, founded 1764, the oldest of the founding churches
First Presbyterian Church, Greenville, Alabama, founded 1820
Presbyterianism
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Presbyterianism is a Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders. Though there are other Reformed churches that are structurally similar, the word Presbyterian is applied to churches that trace their roots to the Church of Scotland or to English Dissenter groups that formed during the English Civil War.
Iona Abbey in Scotland was founded by Saint Columba
John Knox
The Ordination of Elders in a Scottish Kirk, by John Henry Lorimer, 1891. National Gallery of Scotland.
Celtic cross draped for Easter at a Presbyterian church