Baptists in Italy

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The history of Baptists in Italy goes back to the 1860s.

history

First it was British missionaries who laid the foundation stone for the Baptist movement in Italy in 1863. Just a few years later, American missionaries came to Italy. The first Baptist congregations in Italy came into being in some of the larger cities and surrounding villages. In 1905 the establishment of a theological training center for full-time and volunteer employees began. However, this was closed in 1932 by the fascist rulers.

In 1921 the British Baptist Mission Society withdrew from the Italian mission and placed responsibility for the churches it had founded in the hands of the foreign mission of the American Southern Baptist Convention . This prompted the establishment of the Opera Battista in 1939 , a forerunner of the federation of Christian-Evangelical Baptist congregations in Italy that was brought into being twenty years later . On April 25, 2006, the Chiese Evangeliche Riformate Battiste in Italia was founded in Bologna .

Baptist Associations in Italy

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laura Ronchi De Michelis: "Una pagina dell'evangelismo italiano: la Scuola Teologica Battista di Roma (1901–32)" in: Ceci / Demofonti (ed.): Chiesa, laicità e vita civile , Rome 2005 pp. 247-262