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A national Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) committee has nominated Gradye Parsons, a former Tennessee pastor and presbytery executive, to succeed Clifton Kirkpatrick as stated clerk, the denomination’s top executive, at the June 17 election during the PCUSA’s biennial General Assembly in San Jose, California. Kirkpatrick said earlier this year that he would not seek a fourth four-year term in the office at the church’s Louisville, Kentucky, headquarters. Parsons has served as associate stated clerk the last eight years.