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Presbyterian Church of Liberia
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Broad and Johnson Street
PO Box 10-3350
Monrovia 10 1000
Liberia (Africa)
Telephone: +231 227012, mobile: +377 47 511325, 518158
Fax: +231 227047, 227753
Email: ocean@awli.net.lr
ocean1@awli.net.lr
oceangroup@consultant.com
Address-No.: 13200 / 1090
In 1833 the Board of Foreign Missions, set up by the PCUSA, started work in Liberia. The policy of sending only black missionaries from the USA was abandoned when it became clear that they were not less subject to malaria than the white missionaries. One of them signed the Monrovian Declaration of Independence (1847). The last missionaries arrived in 1887. The Presbytery of Liberia in West Africa became independent in 1928. In 1944 it started its own mission work in the Todee District and opened a school and a clinic. Women have traditionally played an important role in church life and have been ordained at an early stage to the various ministries. In 1980 the Presbytery of Liberia became a provisional Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of the USA.
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Statistic data of church
Members |
total: 3000 |
Parishes |
(conventionally): 12 |
house fellowships |
(Number of growing parishes): 0 |
Ordained clergy |
total: 12 |
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women´s ordination |
Elders/Presbyters |
total: 0 |
Deacons |
total: 0 |
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no information about deacons |
Missionaries |
total: 0 |
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no information about missionaries working abroad |
Baptismal practise |
infant and believer´s baptism
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Godparents |
No information about godparents
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Lord's Supper |
Frequency per annum: 12
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Newspapers/ Periodicals |
no information about publication of magazines |
Theological training facilities |
Number: 0 |
Schools providing general education |
no information about other schools |
Founded in |
1928 |
Organizational structures |
Presbyterian |
Traditional type |
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Official languages |
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Confessions |
- Apostles´ Creed
- Nicene Creed (381)
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Association |
International assiciations
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last update: 01.03.2006
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