The Union of Baptist Churches of Cameroon (french: Union des Églises Baptistes du Cameroun) is a
Baptist
Baptists form a major branch of Protestantism distinguished by baptizing professing Christian believers only (believer's baptism), and doing so by complete immersion. Baptist churches also generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul compete ...
Christian denomination
A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity that comprises all church congregations of the same kind, identifiable by traits such as a name, particular history, organization, leadership, theological doctrine, worsh ...
in
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...
. It is affiliated with the
Baptist World Alliance. The headquarters is in
Douala.
History
The Union has its origins in a mission of the
Baptist Missionary Society
BMS World Mission is a Mission (Christian), Christian missionary society founded by Baptists from England in 1792. It was originally called the Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Amongst the Heathen, but for most of its ...
in 1841 by English and Jamaican missionaries such as
Joseph Jackson Fuller and
Joseph Merrick. They are joined by
Alfred Saker
Alfred Saker (21 July 1814 in Wrotham, Kent – 12 March 1880 in Peckham) was a British missionary of the London Baptist Missionary Society. In 1858 he led a Baptist Mission that relocated from the then Spanish island of Fernando Po and landed ...
and his wife in 1845. In 1952, the Union of Baptist Churches of Cameroon was formally founded. In 2005, it has 15 conventions in Cameroon. According to a denomination census released in 2020, it claimed 525 churches and 80,000 members.
[ Baptist World Alliance]
Members
baptistworld.org, USA, retrieved December 5, 2020
See also
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World Evangelical Alliance
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is an interdenominational organization of evangelical Christian churches, serving more than 600 million evangelicals, founded in 1846 in London, England, United Kingdom to unite evangelicals worldwide. WEA i ...
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Believers' Church
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Worship service (evangelicalism)
References
External links
Official Website
{{World Council of Churches
Baptist denominations in Africa
Evangelicalism in Cameroon
Christian denominations in Cameroon