Succession of Moderators and Stated Clerks
of the Bible Presbyterian Church

Moderators:

Bible Presbyterian Church:
1st General Synod Met at Collingswood, NJ 6 September 1938 Moderator: J.U.S. Toms	2nd General Synod Met at Collingswood, NJ 14 November 1939 Moderator: Harold S. Laird, D.D.
3rd General Synod Met at Chester, PA 22 October 1940 Moderator: Dr. Allan A. MacRae, Ph.D.	4th General Synod Met at Charlotte, NC 14 October 1941 Moderator: E.A. Dillard, D.D.
5th General Synod Met at St. Louis, Missouri 5 - 10 November 1942 Moderator: J. Gordon Holdcroft, D.D.	6th General Synod Met at Wilmington, Delaware 14-19 October 1943 Moderator: Roland K. Armes [ruling elder]
7th General Synod - [photograph] Met at Greenville, South Carolina 12-17 October 1944 Moderator: Rev J. Oliver Buswell, Jr., PhD	8th General Synod Met at Harvey Cedars, New Jersey 24-29 May 1945 Moderator: Rev. Flournoy Shepperson, Sr., DD
9th General Synod Met at Collingswood, New Jersey 23-28 May 1946 Moderator: Rev Carl McIntire, DD	10th General Synod Met at Tacoma, Washington 17-22 July 1947 Moderator: Rev. Roy T. Brumbaugh
11th General Synod [photo] Met at Nashville, Tennessee 13 - 18 May 1948 Moderator: Francis A. Schaeffer, DD	12th General Synod Met at Baltimore, Maryland 26 - 31 May 1949 Moderator: Peter Stam, Jr., LLD [ruling elder]
13th General Synod Met at St. Louis, Missouri 1 - 6 June 1950 Moderator: G. Douglas Young, PhD	14th General Synod Met at New York City, New York 31 May - 5 June 1951 Moderator: Rev. John W. Sanderson, Jr., DD
15th General Synod Met at Pasadena, California 21 - 26 August 1952 Moderator: Rev. Robert G. Rayburn, Th.D.	16th General Synod Met at Elkins Park, Pennsylvania 4 - 9 June 1953 Moderator: Rev. William A. Mahlow
17th General Synod Met at Greenville, South Carolina 3 - 9 June 1954 Moderator: Linwood G. Gebb, DD	18th General Synod Met at St. Louis, Missouri 2 - 8 June 1955 Moderator: J. Oliver Buswell, Jr., DD, PhD, LLD
19th General Synod Met at St. Louis, Missouri 5 April 1956 Moderator: R. Laird Harris, PhD
A division occurs in the Bible Presbyterian Church at this point, with the larger portion of the denomination meeting in Columbus, OH to continue as the Bible Presbyterian Church, Columbus Synod, until its name change in 1961. The smaller portion of the division continued on as the Bible Presbyterian Church, Collingswood Synod; with the eventual name change of the Columbus Synod group, the Collingswood Synod later returned to the shorter appelation.
Bible Presbyterian Church, Columbus Synod:
20th General Synod Met at Columbus, OH 28 November 1956 Moderator: L. LaVerne Donaldson	21st General Synod Met at Wilmington, Delaware 5 April 1957 Moderator: Kenneth A. Horner, Jr.
22nd General Synod Met at Lakeland, Florida 19 June 1958 Moderator: Thomas G. Cross, DD	23rd General Synod Met at Quarryville, Pennsylvania 4 June 1959 Moderator: T. Stanley Soltau, DD
24th General Synod Met at Gainesville, Texas 23 July 1960 Moderator: Kyle Thurman
In 1961 the Bible Presbyterian Church, Columbus Synod changed its name to The Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) in order to eliminate confusion between itself and the Collingswood Synod group. The EPC name was then set aside in 1965 with the merger of the EPC and the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, General Synod, the united church taking the name Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod (RPCES). It should be noted that in 1981 a new denomination, formed from 12 congregations leaving the United Presbyterian Church, USA, took the name Evangelical Presbyterian Church. This latter group [1981-ongoing] should be distinguished from the former [1961-1965].
Evangelical Presbyterian Church:
25th General Synod Met at Tacoma, Washington 22 July 1961 Moderator: John M.L. Young, DD	26th General Synod Met at St. Louis, Missouri 7 July 1962 Moderator: McGregor Scott [ruling elder]
27th General Synod Met at Harvey Cedars, New Jersey 13 July 1963 Moderator: Nelson K. Malkus	28th General Synod Met at St. Louis, Missouri 1 April 1964 Moderator: Donald J. MacNair, DD
29th General Synod Met at Lookout Mountain, Tennessee 2 April 1965 Moderator: Frank Smick, Jr.
The Service of Uniting of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, General Synod took place on 6 April, 1965 at 10:00 AM. This was followed by sessions of the 143rd General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod, at which the two Moderators of the now joined churches served alternately as Co-Moderators.
Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod

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