Orthodox Presbyterian Church

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Other forms of name
OPC (Orthodox Presbyterian Church)
See Also From tracing corporate name
Presbyterian Church of America
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 312817083
Wikidata: Q782613
Library of congress: n 85033323
Sources of Information
  • The Orthodox Presbyterian Church, via WWW, 4 March 2019(founded June 11, 1936 under the leadership of J. Gresham Machen; originally calling itself the Presbyterian Church of America, the young church was forced by the threat of a lawsuit to change its name in 1939, and it adopted the name Orthodox Presbyterian Church; headquarters: Willow Grove, PA)
  • Wikipedia, 4 March 2019(Ned Stonehouse; Ned Bernard Stonehouse; 네드 스톤하우스; March 19, 1902-November 18, 1962; New Testament scholar; founded (with J. Gresham Machen) Westminster Theological Seminary in 1929; one of the 34 constituting members of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in 1936; A.B. from Calvin College (1924), Th.B. and Th.M. from Princeton Theological Seminary (1927), Ph.D. from the Free University of Amsterdam (1929))
  • Outreach (Philadelphia, Pa.) Outreach, Feb. 1972, surrogate:t.p. (Orthodox Presbyterian Church) masthead (Philadelphia, Pa.)
  • Orthodox Presbyterian Church, 1936-1986, 1986:pref. (OPC)
  • NUCMC data from Presbyterian Church in America for Bible Presbyterian Church. Records, 1940-1976(In 1939 the Presbyterian Church of America changed its name to Orthodox Presbyterian Church)