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Baptists Together, formally the Baptist Union of Great Britain, is a Baptist Christian denomination in England and Wales. It is affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance and Churches Together in England .
Its headquarters is Essex Hall in central London, on the site of the first avowedly Unitarian chapel in England, set up in 1774. The GAUFCC brought together various strands and traditions besides Unitarianism , including English Presbyterianism , General Baptist , Methodism , Liberal Christianity , Christian Universalism , Religious Humanism ...
The Baptist World Alliance was founded in London, during this first Baptist World Congress in July 1905. Every five years since, the BWA holds a Baptist World Congress in different locations around the world, and multiple international meeting and programs are held in the times between Congresses. [6] [7] [8] [9]
American Baptist Association; American Baptist Churches; Baptist Bible Fellowship International; Baptist Missionary Association of America; Conservative Baptist Association of America; Converge; General Association of Regular Baptist Churches; National Association of Free Will Baptists; National Primitive Baptist Convention of the U.S.A.
Russell was appointed General Secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain in 1967, a position he was to hold until his retirement in 1982. Among other appointments, he also served as Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council (1973–74) and as its president (1983–84).
The Union is a member of both the Free Churches Council and the Evangelical Alliance, and most of its churches are members of local geographic associations of the Baptist Union of Great Britain. Its government structure is somewhat of a combination of congregational and presbyteral , involving in each church the appointment of elders.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. [1] Its full members today include the Assyrian Church of the East, most jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church [2] (including the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople), [3] the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Union of Utrecht, the Lutheran World ...
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) is an ecumenical organisation. The members include most of the major churches in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.CTBI is registered at Companies House with number 05661787.