2013 census a significantly higher 8.5 percent of the New Zealand population, or 330,516 adherents, claimed some form of affiliation with the Presbyterian Church. International connections Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) Council for World Mission (CWM) World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) World Council of Churches (WCC) Social involvement The Presbyterian Social Services Association (PSSA) – subsequently known as "Support" – began operating in the early 20th century. Issues and controversies Abuse allegations In October 2022, Presbyterian Support Otago's chief executive Jo O'Neill acknowledged during the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care that at least six historical cases of abuse had occurred at its Glendining Presbyterian Children's Homes in Andersons Bay in Dunedin. O'Neill also testified that records about children housed under PSO's care had been deliberately destroyed by an alleged paedophile ring between 2017 and 2018. O'Neill also apologised to abuse survivors. In response to O'Neill's testimony, the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand launched an inquiry into an alleged pedophile ring operating within Dunedin's Presbyterian community. On 5 November, the Presbyterian Church confirmed that it had appointed a King's Counsel to investigate the paedophile ring allegations. Breakaway groups Several groups have broken away from the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand because of its liberal theology. In the late 1940s migrants from the Netherlands settling in New Zealand expected to find their spiritual homes in existing churches of Reformed persuasion, particularly the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Instead they found it "less Reformed in doctrine and practice than they had hoped." They felt that the Declaratory Act of 1901 (which said that "diversity of opinion is recognised in this Church on such points in the Confession as do not enter into the substance of the Reformed Faith therein set forth") had "opened the doors of the Presbyterian Church to various 'winds of doctrine'." As a result, the Reformed Churches of New Zealand were officially established in 1953. One group under George Mackenzie left in the 1960s and formed the Orthodox Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. The other breakaway church is Grace Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, which was formed of both a group of pre-existing independent churches, and a number of churches that left the PCANZ after the homosexual controversy of 2003. These united into a new Presbyterian denomination for New Zealand. Same-sex marriage In 2003, the Church decided to allow ministers in sexual relationships other