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    The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Australia is a small Presbyterian church with about 200 members. It was first established in 1858 in Geelong, Victoria and remains centered there today. It traces its origins to the Covenanter movement in Scotland and maintains relationships with similar Reformed Presbyterian churches in North America, Ireland, and Scotland. It operates three congregations in Victoria and is associated with the Reformed Theological College.

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    Reformed Presbyterian Church of Australia

    The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Australia is a Reformed


    Reformed Presbyterian
    church in Australia. It is a small Presbyterian church numbering
    slightly over 200 persons with its largest congregation in the area Church of Australia
    of Geelong, Victoria. The first church, in Geelong, was started in
    1858. It links itself historically with those in the Covenanter
    movement in Scotland who did not accept the settlement of
    Presbyterianism in that country in 1690, and has sister
    denominational relations with the Reformed Presbyterian churches
    of North America, Ireland, and Scotland. Fraternal relations exist
    with the Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia.

    History
    The "Blue Banner"
    A number of Reformed Presbyterians had migrated from Scotland Classification Protestant
    or Ireland to Australia. A number who did not join other branches
    Orientation Reformed
    of Presbyterianism were against occasional hearing, and they
    wanted a minister of their own. They wrote to the parent church Polity Presbyterian
    requesting this. Rev. A. M. Moore eventually answered. He was Associations Reformed
    ordained in Belfast 18 August 1857, and arrived in Melbourne in Presbyterian
    late December 1857, to commence the work in Geelong which he Church
    served until his death in 1897. Geelong was the only congregation
    for many years, the most notable minister after Moore being H.K. Region Victoria, Australia
    Mack who served 1909-46. Congregations were begun in Origin 1858
    McKinnon, Victoria (1933 begun/1946 organised under Rev. W. Geelong
    R. McEwen), Frankston, Victoria (1971/1977), and Sunbury,
    Branched from Reformed
    Victoria (1979/1981, closed 2006).
    Presbyterian
    In 1959, Rev. A. Barkley, RP minister in Geelong, became the Church of Ireland
    founding principal of the Reformed Theological College. Separations Reformed
    Presbyterian
    In 1974, the Australian Presbytery petitioned the parent body, the
    Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland, and was made a Church of the
    separate denomination (or church) on 12 June. In former times, Philippines
    church law required members to believe that the Solemn League Congregations 3[1]
    and Covenant were still binding and forbade them from
    Members 260
    participating in government because the Constitution does not
    explicitly make the Australia an officially Christian country; these
    provisions have been repealed.
    The Frankston congregation, after closing in 1989, was revived
    around 2004 as a preaching station of the McKinnon
    congregation. The organising pastor from February 2006 was
    Rev. Ed Blackwood from the United States. In 2008 it became a
    separate congregation meeting in a hall in Frankston South. The
    pastor resigned in August 2015 and returned to the U.S. Pastor
    Andrew McCracken moved to Frankston from the United States
    to take up the work again in March 2020.

    Organisations Reformed Presbyterians at a family


    conference

    Theological Seminaries
    Reformed Theological College (in conjunction with the Christian Reformed Church of
    Australia and the Reformed Churches of New Zealand)

    See also
    List of Presbyterian and Reformed denominations in Australia
    Presbyterian polity
    Reformed Presbyterian churches

    References
    1. RPCA Congregations (http://rpca.org.au/about/churches/)

    External links
    RPCA Website (http://rpca.org.au/)
    Frankston Reformed Presbyterian Church (http://frankstonrp.org.au/)
    McKinnon Reformed Presbyterian Church (http://mckinnonrp.org.au)

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