The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARPC) traces its roots to the Scottish Reformation. In 1560, John Knox led the establishment of Presbyterianism as Scotland’s national church. Over the following centuries, conflicts arose over state interference, patronage of ministers, and doctrinal purity.In 1733, Rev. Ebenezer Erskine and others formed the Associate Presbytery (the “Seceders”). A similar group of Covenanters organized the Reformed Presbytery about a decade later. Both bodies spread to Northern Ireland and then to America with Scots-Irish immigrants.On October 31, 1782, the Associate and Reformed Presbyteries united in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, creating the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. The present-day ARPC continues from the Synod of the South, organized in 1803 at Ebenezer Church in Winnsboro, South Carolina. While northern branches eventually merged into other Presbyterian denominations, the southern Synod remained independent, preserving its commitment to Scripture, the Westminster Standards, and Reformed worship and doctrine.Today the ARPC remains a small but faithful conservative denomination, carrying forward the same gospel-centered heritage that first drew its founders to separate for the sake of biblical fidelity.