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2 days ago · The Southern Baptist Convention ( SBC ), alternatively the Great Commission Baptists ( GCB ), is a Christian denomination based in the United States. It is the world's largest Baptist organization and the largest Protestant and second-largest Christian body in the United States. [1] [2] The SBC is a cooperation of fully autonomous, independent ...
- SBC; GCB
- May 8–12, 1845, Augusta, Georgia, U.S.
- 13,223,122 (2022), Weekly attendance = 3,800,000 (2022)
- Bart Barber
1 day ago · Protestant. Six princes of the Holy Roman Empire and rulers of fourteen Imperial Free Cities, who issued a protest (or dissent) against the edict of the Diet of Speyer (1529), were the first individuals to be called Protestants. [19] The edict reversed concessions made to the Lutherans with the approval of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V three ...
2 days ago · The concept originated among early Baptists in America. In 1644, Roger Williams, a puritan minister and founder of the state of Rhode Island and The First Baptist Church in America, was the first public official to call for "a wall or hedge of separation" between "the wilderness of the world" and "the garden of the church."
3 days ago · Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices which are associated with members of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Adherents are commonly known as Christian Scientists or students of Christian Science, and the church is sometimes informally known as the Christian Science church.
- Estimated 106,000 in the United States in 1990 and under 50,000 in 2009; according to the church, 400,000 worldwide in 2008.
- "Basic teachings", Church of Christ, Scientist
- Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910)
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2 days ago · Both slaves and free blacks were welcomed into Methodist and Baptist churches. Independent black Baptist churches were established before 1800 in Virginia, Kentucky, South Carolina and Georgia, and later developed in Mississippi as well. In the post-Civil War years, religion became more influential as the South became known as the "Bible Belt".
- 48,430 sq mi (125,443 km²)
2 days ago · Charles XIV John. Charles XIV John ( Swedish: Karl XIV Johan; 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844) was King of Sweden and Norway from 1818 until his death in 1844 and the first monarch of the Bernadotte dynasty. In Norway, he is known as Charles III John ( Norwegian: Karl III Johan) and before he became royalty in Sweden, his name was Jean ...
2 days ago · The Episcopal Church ( TEC ), based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere, is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Michael Bruce Curry, the first African American bishop to serve in that ...
