Basic Information

The Separate Baptists in Christ trace their history to the "separation" of people from the Congregational Church in the early 18th century because of their acceptance of Baptist doctrines. Although many of the Separate Baptists were absorbed by other Baptist groups through mergers, a few survived and in 1912 organized the General Association of Separatist Baptists.

History

	Separate Baptists in Christ, General Association of	continuedSeparate Baptists in Christ, General Association of
		merged intoUnited Baptists (1786)

Snapshot

	1990^*	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	n.a.	94	--
Adherents	n.a.	10,674	--

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.

^* Group did not participate in 1990 RCMS, so 1990 data is unavailable.

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]