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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.
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]
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 churches being penalized by the Convention and asked to leave the Convention.
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] The Regular Baptist and Free Will Baptist congregations wrote a statement of faith and polity called the "Basis of Union" with which both groups ...
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.
It was established in 1850 by the Canadian Baptist Ministries. The CBM was founded at the initiative of Thomas Gabriel which gave the impetus to the Canadian Baptists to embark on overseas missions. In India, the Canadian Baptist Mission work was spread in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha .
Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec; Canadian Baptists of Western Canada; Canadian National Baptist Convention; Covenanted Baptist Church of Canada; F.