Major Baptist Organizations in The U.S.
The Handbook of Denominations in the United States identifies and describes 31 Baptist groups or conventions in the United States. A partial list follows. (Unless otherwise noted, statistics are taken from the Baptist World Alliance website, and reflect 2006 data.)
- Alliance of Baptists: 100 congregations, 60,000 members
- American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA): 5,800 congregations, 1.4 million members
- Baptist General Convention of Texas: 5,700 congregations, 2.3 million members
- Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV): 1,400 congregations, 400,000 members
- Baptist General Conference: 1,000 congregations, 140,000 members
- Conservative Baptist Association (CBAmerica): 1,200 congregations, 200,000 members
- Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF): 1,900 congregations, 700,000 members
- General Association of Regular Baptist Churches: 1,400 congregations, 130,000 members
- National Association of Free Will Baptists: 2,000 congregations, 200,000 members
- Old-Line Primitive Baptists
- Progressive Primitive Baptists
- Southern Baptist Convention (SBC): 44,000 congregations, 16.3 million members
- African-American Baptist groups:
- National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.: 12,000 congregations, 3.1 million members
- National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.: 33,000 congregations, 8.5 million members
- National Missionary Baptist Convention of America: 300 congregations, 400,000 members
- National Primitive Baptist Association: 1,500 congregations, 250,000 members
- Progressive National Baptist Convention: 1,200 congregations, 2.5 million members
- Associations holding to Landmarkism
- American Baptist Association: 1,800 congregations, 275,000 members
- Baptist Missionary Association of America: 1,300 congregations, 235,000 members
- Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptist Association
- Independent (non-aligned) Baptist churches
- Baptist Bible Fellowship International: 3,400 congregations, 1.4 million members
- Independent Baptist Fellowship International: 540 congregations
- Southwide Baptist Fellowship: 900 congregations
- The Spiritual Baptist Archdiocese of New York, Inc.
- World Baptist Fellowship: 900 congregations
- In addition, there are many Independent Baptist churches not aligned with any group
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