United Baptists

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Basic Information

The United Baptists movement was founded in 1786 by a merger of several Regular Baptists' and Separate Baptists' associations.

History

Regular Baptists
Separate Baptists in Christ, General Association of

merged intoUnited Baptists (1786)

 

Snapshot

  1990 2000* Growth/Decline
Congregations 436 n.a. --
Adherents 68,187 n.a. --

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 2000 RCMS, so 2000 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]