National Baptist Convention of America
The National Baptist Convention of America International, Inc. (NBCA Intl or NBCA) is an American Baptist Union with communities in the United States, Canada and some countries in Africa and the Caribbean. It is dominated by African Americans .
The founding of the NBCA resulted from the dispute in 1915 over the independence of the National Baptist Publishing Board of Nashville . The advocates of an independent board around Pastor Richard Henry Boyd split off from the National Baptist Convention and founded the National Baptist Convention of America . After a further split, the National Missionary Baptist Convention of America was formed in 1988 and in 1994 a group around Bishop Paul S. Morton Sr. called the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship .
With approximately 3,500,000 members in approximately 8,000 congregations, the NBCA ranks 8th among the denominations with the largest number of members in the United States and is the third largest religious association of African American Christians in the United States. A delegates' conference is held three times a year; various commissions and committees also work. The headquarters, which had long been in Dallas , Texas , moved to the campus of Simmons College of Kentucky in Louisville, Kentucky in 2017 . Samuel Tolbert has been president since 2014.
The NBCA is a member of the World Council of Churches , the National Council of Churches of the USA and the World Baptist Federation .
Web links
- NBCA website
- National Baptist Union of America on WCC website