Presbytery of North Alabama

The Presbytery of North Alabama is a Presbyterian regional body that formerly included congregations in the Birmingham area. Until 1983, the presbytery was part of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS) (i.e., the "Southern Presbyterian Church") and its Synod of Alabama. Since the 1983 reunion of the PCUS with the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA)) it has been part of the the Presbyterian Church (United States of America), or PC(USA).

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.

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

In the mid-twentieth-century Birmingham churches were reassigned to the new Birmingham Presbytery

Birmingham also had several congregations that belonged to the UPCUSA and its predecessor body the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA). Most of these were originally part of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (CPC) and came 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.

The Presbytery of North Alabama continued to be a regional unit of the PCUS throughout its history and continues to be a unit of the Presbyterian Church (USA) for Alabama congregations in Cullman, Huntsville, Madison, and other communities north of the Birmingham area.

References

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

External links

• Presbytery of North Alabama website