Basic Information

The Baptist General Conference was founded among Swedish-Americans in 1852 by Gustaf Palmquist.

Snapshot

	1990	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	786	866	+80 (10.2%)
Adherents	167,874	238,920	+71,046 (42.3%)

Notes

Snapshot data are from Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 and Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc.

History data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches [More information on history data sources]