Denominational Profile

History

	Regular Baptists	continuedRegular Baptists
		merged intoUnited Baptists (1786)

The Regular Baptist church dates to the 1854 organization of the New Salem Association by Baptists who rejected the innovations introduced among American Baptists during the nineteenth century.
A Baptist family tree is available here.

Membership Data

Year	Clergy	Churches	Members
1925	997	755	49,184
1936	-	266	17,186
1937	-	755	-

Source

Data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. Denomination descriptions provided by Dr. J. Gordon Melton, Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion (ISAR). [More information on data sources]