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National Baptist Convention | |
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Classification | Evangelical Christianity |
Orientation | Baptist |
Polity | Congregationalist |
President | Jerry Young |
Associations | Baptist World Alliance Christian Churches Together |
Founder | Elias Camp Morris |
Origin | 1895 Montgomery, Alabama |
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Congregations | 21,145 |
Members | 8,415,100 |
Tertiary institutions | American Baptist College |
Official website | www |
The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., more commonly known as the National Baptist Convention (NBC USA or NBC), is a Baptist Christian denomination headquartered at the Baptist World Center in Nashville, Tennessee and affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance.[i] It is also the largest predominantly and traditionally African American church in the United States and the second largest Baptist denomination in the world.[1]
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