Presbytery of North Alabama

The Presbytery of North Alabama was a regional body of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS) (i.e., the "Southern Presbyterian Church") that included Birmingham. It was part of the denomination's Synod of Alabama.

The PCUS was formed in 1861 as the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America by Southern Presbyterians who withdrew from the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (Old School). After the war, the Southern denomination changed its name to Presbyterian Church in the United States. In 1983 the PCUS reunited with the national denomination (by that point called the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA)) to form the Presbyterian Church (United States of America), or PC(USA).

After reunion, in 1988 PC(USA) presbytery boundaries were redrawn and Birmingham-area churches became part of the new Presbytery of Sheppards and Lapsley.

In 1921 the Presbytery of North Alabama consisted of 78 churches. Birmingham-area churches included:

• Avondale Presbyterian Church
• First Presbyterian Church
• Second Presbyterian Church
• South Highland Presbyterian Church
• Third Presbyterian Church
• Woodlawn Presbyterian Church

Birmingham also had several congregations that belonged to the PCUSA. Most of these were originally part of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (CPC) can cane into the PCUSA in a 1906 reunion of the CPC with the PCUSA. Depending on their location, Birmingham area PCUSA congregations were either part of the Presbytery of Birmingham or Presbytery of Gadsden.

References

• Minutes of the Sixty-First General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. (1921) Richmond, VA: Presbyterian Committee of Publication.