Presbyterian Church in the United States

Presbyterian Church in the United States
Classification	Protestant
Orientation	Calvinist
Polity	Presbyterian polity
Origin	1861
Separated from	Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (1861)
Absorbed	Independent Presbyterian Church (1863); United Synod of the South (1864); parts of the Associate Reformed Church (1867,1870)
Separations	Presbyterian Church in America (1973)
Merged into	Presbyterian Church (USA), 1983
Congregations	4,250 in 1982
Members	814,931 in 1982
Ministers	6,077 in 1982[1]

The Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS, originally Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America) was a Protestant denomination in the Southern and border states of the United States that existed from 1861 to 1983. That year, it merged with the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA) to form the Presbyterian Church (USA).