Fred Greco
Chief administrative officer of the Presbyterian Church in America, elected at the 53rd General Assembly in Louisville in June 2026. He runs the machinery of the largest body in the family, about 405,000 members.
Verified 10-07← Reformed Confessional Bodies: the dossier
The deck · 31 cards
How to read this deckThe living power of confessional Reformed North America. ♠ the courts that govern, ♦ the schools that make the ministers and the agencies that send and keep them, ♥ the pulpits, pens and planting networks, ♣ the Outer Orbit: Reformed voices outside the NAPARC churches. Plotted in full on 7 October 2026: 31 cards. Not dealt: presbytery and classis officers, congregations below the largest, and the pastors of the large Korean-American PCA churches, whose names could not be confirmed. Ranks are this house's reading of weight within each suit, not a league table.
♠The Courts12 cards
Mel Duncan
A long-serving ruling elder of Calvary Presbytery, elected moderator of the 2026 Assembly. He also chairs the PCA's new committee on artificial intelligence, which reports in 2028.
Verified 10-07Hank Belfield
Stated Clerk of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, from Providence OPC in Chilhowie, Virginia. The OPC is small (about 33,500 members) but its seminary and publishing weigh far beyond its size.
Verified 10-07Beard McAulay
Ruling elder who received the moderator's shield at the 222nd ARP Synod in June 2026. The ARP is the oldest body in the family's Southern line.
Verified 10-07Doug Barnes
Clerk of the United Reformed Churches in North America (about 25,000 members, the Dutch Reformed wing of NAPARC), from Grace URC in Alto, Michigan.
Verified 10-07Nathan Barczi
Member of the PCA's ad interim committee on artificial intelligence, set up by the 53rd General Assembly to report by 2028 on Scripture, the Westminster Standards and AI in the church.
Verified 10-07Scott Cook
Member of the PCA's ad interim committee on artificial intelligence, set up by the 53rd General Assembly to report by 2028 on Scripture, the Westminster Standards and AI in the church.
Verified 10-07Adam Parker
Member of the PCA's ad interim committee on artificial intelligence, set up by the 53rd General Assembly to report by 2028 on Scripture, the Westminster Standards and AI in the church.
Verified 10-07Ben Ratliff
Member of the PCA's ad interim committee on artificial intelligence, set up by the 53rd General Assembly to report by 2028 on Scripture, the Westminster Standards and AI in the church.
Verified 10-07Frank Cohee
Member of the PCA's ad interim committee on artificial intelligence, set up by the 53rd General Assembly to report by 2028 on Scripture, the Westminster Standards and AI in the church.
Verified 10-07Dan Lohrmann
Member of the PCA's ad interim committee on artificial intelligence, set up by the 53rd General Assembly to report by 2028 on Scripture, the Westminster Standards and AI in the church.
Verified 10-07Joshua Torrey
Member of the PCA's ad interim committee on artificial intelligence, set up by the 53rd General Assembly to report by 2028 on Scripture, the Westminster Standards and AI in the church.
Verified 10-07♦The Schools & Agencies11 cards
J. Ligon Duncan III
Head of Reformed Theological Seminary, the largest trainer of PCA ministers, across several campuses. He is the most senior institutional figure in the family.
Verified 10-07David B. Garner
Fifth president of Westminster Theological Seminary in Glenside, Pennsylvania, in office from 1 July 2026. Westminster is the school of Machen and Van Til, and the OPC's intellectual home.
Verified 10-07Lloyd Kim
Has led Mission to the World, the PCA's global mission agency, since July 2014.
Verified 10-07Thomas C. Gibbs
Sixth president of Covenant Seminary in St. Louis since July 2021. Covenant is the PCA's own denominational seminary.
Verified 10-07Andrew Rein
A ruling elder who took charge of RUF, the PCA's campus ministry, on 1 July 2025.
Verified 10-07Joel E. Kim
Fourth president of Westminster Seminary California in Escondido since 1 August 2017.
Verified 10-07Brad Voyles
Seventh president, since 2023, of Covenant College, the PCA's college on Lookout Mountain, Georgia, which reports its largest-ever enrollment.
Verified 10-07Ed Dunnington
Has led the PCA's pension and insurance agency since 1 July 2020. It was formerly PCA Retirement & Benefits and was renamed in 2022.
Verified 10-07D. Blair Smith
President of RTS's Charlotte campus since 1 June 2025, succeeding Michael Kruger. Charlotte is the campus where Kevin DeYoung teaches.
Verified 10-07Adriaan C. Neele
President since 2023 of PRTS in Grand Rapids, the seminary of the Heritage Reformed Congregations, a NAPARC member. Joel Beeke, its president from 1995, became chancellor.
Verified 10-07Steve Dowling
Runs the PCA's church-planting and domestic mission agency on an interim basis, extended for another year. A search committee is to bring a nominee to the 54th General Assembly (2027).
Verified 10-07♥The Pulpits & Pens6 cards
Kevin DeYoung
Pastor of Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina, and professor at RTS Charlotte. He is the family's most-read popular writer.
Verified 10-07Chris Larson
Runs the teaching ministry R. C. Sproul founded, the family's largest media and publishing house.
Verified 10-07Mark Reynolds
Appointed CEO of City to City in March 2026. It is the church-planting network Tim Keller built, which has trained planters in cities worldwide. Reynolds has served with it since 2003.
Verified 10-07Jeff Norris
Senior pastor since September 2019 of Perimeter in Johns Creek, Georgia, one of the two largest PCA congregations at about 5,000 members.
Verified 10-07Jonathan Gibson
Called by the congregation on 16 November 2025, he took up full-time duties on 1 June 2026 and was installed in September 2026 at the historic pulpit of James Montgomery Boice and Philip Ryken.
Verified 10-07Joel R. Beeke
Led PRTS as president from 1995 to 2023 and remains its chancellor. Through Reformation Heritage Books and decades of writing on the Puritans, he is the family's leading voice for experiential Calvinism.
Verified 10-07♣The Outer Orbit2 cards
Douglas Wilson
Co-founder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (1993), which sits outside NAPARC. He is the loudest Reformed voice for an openly Christian civil order, and the CREC drew national notice through Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's ties to it.
Verified 10-07Mark Vroegop
Selected in 2025 as TGC's third president; lead pastor of College Park Church, Indianapolis. TGC, founded by Keller and Carson, is the broad Reformed-leaning network that carries this family's ideas into wider evangelicalism.
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