United Presbyterian Church in the USA synods and presbyteries 1968

The following is a list of synods and presbyteries that composed the former United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America on December 31, 1968. The UPCUSA was the largest body, often erroneously referred to as "Northern," of Presbyterianism in the U.S., prior to its 1983 merger with the Presbyterian Church in the United States, whose churches were located entirely within the Southern and border states.

The judicatory territories enumerated here were altered at least once during the 1970s by the UPCUSA General Assembly, which, in turn, gave way to entirely new boundaries during the formative years of the current Presbyterian Church (USA) in the mid-1980s.

Synods are listed in bold, with their presbyteries underneath them, along with the number of congregations and total membership in the presbytery at that time. States included in territories are in parentheses, unless referred to in the synod or presbytery's name.

Synod/Presbytery churches membership
Arizona
Northern Arizona 12 1520
Phoenix 57 16827
Southern Arizona 15 9441
Catawba (North Carolina, Virginia)
Cape Fear (N.C.) 34 2790
Catawba (N.C.) 44 5304
Southern Virginia 23 2525
Chesapeake (Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia)
Baltimore (Md.) 76 32537
New Castle (Del., Md.) 56 21244
Washington City (D.C., Md., Va.) 72 40729
Colorado
Boulder 36 14444
Denver 51 26332
Pueblo 27 9802
Western Colorado 20 2755
Florida
East Florida 24 10660
North Florida 26 5446
South Florida 32 15971
West Florida 28 12819
Golden Gate (northern California)
Redwoods 51 14942
San Francisco 78 44191
San Jose 38 19319
Idaho
Boise (Id., Oregon) 15 5110
Kendall 20 5354
Northern Idaho 22 3031
Illinois
Alton 42 14004
Bloomington 35 14509
Chicago 141 86266
Freeport 42 15834
Mattoon 38 10261
Monmouth 58 17622
Ottawa 42 16100
Peoria 35 12629
Southern Illinois 64 10644
Springfield 41 13523
Indiana
Crawfordsville 39 11409
Indianapolis 54 28687
Logansport 58 26043
New Albany 41 6595
Vincennes 42 10124
Wabash River 49 24769
Whitewater (Ind., Ohio) 26 6441
Iowa
Des Moines 48 18931
North Central Iowa 63 20785
Northeast Iowa 58 19113
Northwest Iowa 60 18333
Southeast Iowa 61 18546
Southwest Iowa 59 12323
Kansas
High Plains 44 10982
Neosho (Kan., Missouri) 42 8197
Solomon 49 11950
Topeka-Highland 56 27838
Wichita 47 16643
Kentucky
Ebenezer 34 5484
Transylvania 26 5545
Western Kentucky (Ky., Tennessee) 31 3771
Michigan
Detroit 102 81424
Grand River 41 19527
Lake Huron 57 27286
Mackinac (Mich., Wisconsin) 41 9175
Southern Michigan 51 25578
Mid-South (Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia)
Birmingham "A" (Ala.) 23 4038
Holston (N.C., Tenn., Va.) 35 3838
Huntsville (Ala., Tenn.) 23 3158
Mississippi 30 1468
Nashville (Tenn.) 28 3093
Saint Andrew (Tenn.) 30 3290
Union (Tenn.) 43 7875
West Tennessee (Ark., Tenn.) 25 2297
Minnesota
Duluth 45 11104
Mankato 51 13758
Minneapolis 36 21964
Red River 28 4544
Saint Cloud 20 5151
Saint Paul (Minn., Wis.) 24 14564
Sheldon Jackson 20 6608
Missouri
Carthage-Ozark 47 9083
Iron Mountain (Ark., Mo.) 14 1146
Kansas City 36 13347
Kirk 44 5028
Saint Joseph 34 4477
Saint Louis 70 38633
Sedalia 25 4015
Nebraska
Box Butte 15 4628
Nebraska City (Kan., Neb.) 36 14003
Niobrara 41 9258
Omaha 38 19085
Platte 41 12866
New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont)
Boston (Mass.) 25 5678
Connecticut Valley (Conn., Mass.) 21 12997
Northern New England (Me., N.H., Vt.) 32 4940
Providence (Mass., R.I.) 15 4341
New Jersey
Elizabeth 54 45221
Monmouth 46 22008
Newark 56 28671
New Brunswick 42 21769
Newton 66 29792
Palisades 61 30463
West Jersey 71 29663
New Mexico
Pecos Valley 12 2995
Rio Grande 29 10548
Santa Fe 20 3431
New York
Albany 92 26308
Cayuga-Syracuse 53 17257
Genessee Valley 80 39905
Geneva 68 21396
Hudson River (N.Y., Pennsylvania) 111 40268
Long Island 59 31309
New York City 117 40125
Northern New York 50 9100
Puerto Rico 52 7061
Susquehanna Valley 64 18634
Utica 47 13091
Western New York 76 43028
North Dakota
Bismarck-Minot (Montana, N.D.) 22 5164
Fargo-Oakes 25 4297
Pembina 35 4931
Ohio
Cincinnati (Ky., Ohio) 74 36473
Cleveland 71 48492
Columbus 77 40139
Mahoning 58 29141
Maumee (Mich., Ohio) 72 25481
Miami 73 35996
Muskingum 83 17160
Scioto 56 10752
Steubenville 57 14069
Wooster 56 23869
Oklahoma-Arkansas
Arkansas (Ark., Mo.) 44 5948
Cimarron (Okla.) 17 6907
Eastern Oklahoma 67 22397
Washita (Okla.) 53 14765
Oregon
Eastern Oregon 16 2867
Portland 57 25472
Southwest Oregon 28 8242
Willamette 32 11117
Pennsylvania
Beaver-Butler 97 33950
Carlisle 55 22613
Donegal (Md., Penn.) 69 30198
Huntingdon 60 14174
Kiskiminetas 96 24409
Lackawanna 80 19538
Lake Erie 69 25442
Lehigh 42 16101
Northumberland 48 10782
Philadelphia 182 101844
Pittsburgh 201 121229
Redstone 103 36557
Shenango (Ohio, Pa.) 74 31846
Washington 78 27510
Rockies (Montana, Wyoming)
Glacier (Mont.) 22 7044
Wyoming 28 10038
Yellowstone (Mont.) 28 6774
Sierra (central California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah)
Nevada 19 4351
Sacramento (Calif.) 37 18231
San Joaquin (Calif.) 39 15412
Stockton (Calif.) 21 6994
Utah (Id., Utah) 20 5930
South Carolina-Georgia
Atlantic (S.C.) 28 5073
Fairfield-McClelland (S.C.) 34 1931
Georgia 23 2281
South Dakota
Black Hills 25 4565
Dakota (Minn., Neb., Mont., S.D.) 23 1521
Huron-Aberdeen 34 6403
Sioux Falls 33 7005
Southern California
Los Angeles-Southwest (Calif., Hawaii) 49 39268
Los Ranchos 51 41942
Riverside 28 14829
San Diego 34 24904
San Fernando 32 22848
San Gabriel 42 30823
Santa Barbara 29 14068
Texas
Alamo 34 5457
Big Bend 16 3835
Brazos 56 12906
Gulf Coast (Louisiana, Tex.) 30 9273
Plains 31 8550
Trinity 85 13816
Washington-Alaska
Alaska 16 1887
Bellingham (Wash.) 21 5252
Columbia River (Wash.) 14 4714
Olympia (Wash.) 34 11492
Seattle (Wash.) 63 28378
Spokane (Wash.) 28 12547
Walla Walla (Wash.) 21 8153
Wenatchee (Wash.) 17 4571
Yukon (Ak.) 16 3011
West Virginia
Grafton 17 4500
Parkersburg 27 3752
Wheeling 27 9090
Wisconsin
Chippewa (Mich., Wis.) 42 7776
Madison 44 13212
Milwaukee 57 24562
Winnebago 42 15016

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Minutes of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, Part III: The Statistical Tables and Presbytery Rolls, January 1-December 31, 1968, Office of the General Assembly, Philadelphia, 1969.