Free Presbyterian Church may mean:

• Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, a breakaway from the Free Church of Scotland in 1893 (the Free Church of Scotland itself may occasionally have been referred to as Free Presbyterian before 1893, especially in its early years after the Disruption of 1843)
• Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, sometimes known simply as Free Presbyterian Church, founded by Ian Paisley in 1951. This denomination is now worldwide with Churches in the rest of Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, Canada, the USA and further afield.
• Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria, formerly Free Presbyterian Church of Australia Felix, a past Australian denomination founded in 1847 and in sympathy with the Free Church of Scotland
• Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia popularly known as the Free Presbyterian Church of Australia or Free Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia see [http://www.pcea.asn.au/crae_wor.html and various other pages on the web.
• Free Presbyterian Church of South Australia, founded by ministers of the Free Church of Scotland in 1854 (see the debate in the South Australia Parliament (26 Sept 2001, page 2269 onwards) regarding its remaining property ^*)
• Free Presbyterian Church of South Australia - a new denomination in the late 20th century, a branch of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster (see ^* )
• African Free Presbyterian Church of Zimbabwe an indigenous breakaway formed by Rev Edwin Radasi, son of Rev John Boyana Radasi, the founder of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia)
• Name of one or more mid-19th century synods/denominations in Canada

References

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• The Schaff-Herzog article "Presbyterians" ^* is a source for the information about the existence of

* the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria (or Australia Felix)

* the Free Presbyterian Church of South Australia (1854)

* the 19th century denominations in Canada

mentioned above

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