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Book of Order, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

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The constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) governing its polity, including the requirement in G-3.0106 that every council maintain its own sexual misconduct policy and a separate child and youth protection policy, and the mandatory abuse reporting rule in G-4.0302.

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Reliability Tier
1
Reliability tier 1: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s own constitution, the primary institutional text governing its own polity and abuse reporting rules.
Notes
Tier 1: the denomination's own governing constitution, published on its own pcusa.org domain, and the denomination's own account of its policy requirement rather than an outside body's finding about it.
Citation
Publisher
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Office of the General Assembly
Publication Year
2025
URL
https://www.pcusa.org/sites/default/files/2025-08/2025_0724_Book_of_Order_Interactive_2025-2027.pdf
Source Type
church body
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  • Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
  • Denominations, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.

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