National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.

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National Baptist Convention
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Classification	Evangelical Christianity
Orientation	Baptist
Polity	Congregationalist
President	Jerry Young
Associations	Baptist World Alliance
Founder	Elias Camp Morris
Origin	1895 Montgomery, Alabama
Merger of	Foreign Mission Baptist Convention (org. 1880) American National Baptist Convention (org. 1886) National Baptist Education Convention (org. 1893)
Separations	Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention (separated 1897) National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. (separated 1915) Progressive National Baptist Convention (separated 1961) Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship (separated 1992)
Congregations	21,145
Members	8,415,100
Tertiary institutions	American Baptist College
Official website	www.nationalbaptist.com

The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., more commonly known as the National Baptist Convention (NBC USA or NBC), is a Baptist Christian denomination headquartered at the Baptist World Center in Nashville, Tennessee and affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance.^[i] It is also the largest predominantly and traditionally African American church in the United States and the second largest Baptist denomination in the world.^[1]

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