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According to the Canada 2021 Census, the number of people in Canada who identify themselves as Baptists is 436,940, about 1.2% of the population. The major Baptist associations are the Canadian Baptist Ministries, the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada, the Canadian National Baptist Convention, and the Baptist General Conference of Canada.
In 1957, these churches founded the Canadian Southern Baptist Conference. [3] In 1985, it was renamed the Canadian Convention of Southern Baptists and had 58 churches. [4] [5] In 1987, it opened the Canadian Baptist Theological Seminary and College, in Cochrane, Alberta. [6] In 2001, the attendance was 10,189 members. [7]
Worship service at Chauveau Evangelical Church in Quebec City. In 1928, the Union of Regular Baptist Churches of Ontario and Quebec (led by Thomas Todhunter Shields) broke away from the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, while the Fellowship of Independent Baptist Churches was formed in 1933. These two merged in 1953 to form the FEBCC.
The Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission Board (CBFMB) was founded in 1912. [7] The Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission Board was renamed to Canadian Baptist Overseas Missions Board (CBOMB) on May 1, 1970. [8] The Canadian Baptist Overseas Missions Board was renamed again to Canadian Baptist International Ministries (CBIM) in 1990.
The Baptist Convention of the Maritime Provinces was founded in 1846. [1] The Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada was formed in 1905-1906 as the United Baptist Convention of the Maritimes by a union of Free, or Free Will Baptists and Calvinistic or Regular Baptists. [2]
In 1880, a Baptist Union of Canada was formed. Since the churches were located chiefly in the central provinces, the name was changed in 1888 to Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec (BCOQ). [1] In 1927 the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy resulted in 77
Baptist churches in Canada (2 C, 3 P) ... Canadian Baptist Ministries (23 P) Canadian Baptists (1 C, 95 P) S. Baptist seminaries and theological colleges in Canada (10 P)
[1] This church planted 4 other churches. The latter founded the Central Canada Baptist Conference in 1905 and became a member of the Baptist General Conference of the United States. [2] Though organized into regional conferences, these churches were also affiliated with the Baptist Union of Western Canada (BUWC) for the first half of the 20th ...