Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Corporate Name)

Stephens, J. V. The organic union ... 1943

The confession of faith and form of government of the Reformed Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1903: t.p. verso (C.P. Church; Reformed Cumberland Presbyterian Church was organized by disaffected members of the dissolved Porter Presbytery of the C.P. Church, Nov. 21, 1903)

PPPrHi files (Cumberland Presbyterian Church; established in 1810 when the Presbytery of Cumberland of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. withdrew, over doctrinal differences, to form the independent Cumberland Presbytery (1810-1813); this body grew to become the Cumberland Synod (1813-1829) in 1813 and had expanded sufficiently by 1829 to form the Cumberland Presbyterian Church; in 1906 the Cumberland Presbyterian Church voted to reunite with the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and most synods and presbyteries were transferred to the rolls of the Presbyterian Church; there was considerable grassroots opposition, however, and a sizeable remnant continued the original organization under the same name, existing to the present)