Timeline for the history of the Baptists
The Baptists are among the most important Protestant church communities worldwide . Its history goes back to the beginning of the 17th century. The Baptist movement in German-speaking and in Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe began in Hamburg in 1834 .
Unless otherwise noted, the following dates are taken from a time table obtained from Günter Balders .
Timetable
1606 to 1800
| year | Day month | event |
|---|---|---|
| 1606 | Former Anglican clergyman John Smyth fled to Amsterdam because of his independist beliefs . There he becomes the leader of a small community of religious refugees. | |
| 1609 | John Smyth is baptized by a Mennonite pastor based on his personal creed . | |
| 1611 | Thomas Helwys , who belongs to the circle around Smyth, went back to England with part of the congregation and founded the first British Baptist church there. | |
| 1628 | November 28th | John Bunyan , Baptist minister and writer, was born in Elstow near Bedford . |
| 1639 | Roger Williams founds the first US Baptist Church in Rhode Island . | |
| 1653 | Foundation of the first Seventh-day Baptist Church in London , England | |
| 1792 | In England, William Carey founds the first Baptist missionary society, the Particular Baptist Missonary Society . | |
| 1800 | January 26th | Johann Gerhard Oncken , founder of the German and continental European Baptist congregations, was born in Varel . |
1801 to 1900
| year | Day month | event |
|---|---|---|
| 1825 | January 9th | Johann Gerhard Oncken founds the first German Sunday school together with the Lutheran pastor Johann Wilhelm Rautenberg in the Hamburg district of St. Georg . |
| 1834 | April 23 | The first German Baptist church is founded with 7 members by Johann Gerhard Oncken in Hamburg . |
| 1839 | The first Danish Baptist congregation is established in Copenhagen through the work of Johann Gerhard Oncken and Julius Köbner . | |
| 1840 | August 30th | Foundation of the Jever Baptist Congregation by Johann Gerhard Oncken |
| 1845 | The first Dutch Baptist church is founded in Stadskanaal by Julius Köbner. | |
| November 9th | Foundation of the Bremen Baptist Congregation | |
| 1846 | Foundation of the Evangelical Alliance in London. The German Baptists are involved in the foundation through Johann Gerhard Oncken. | |
| 1847 | First Baptists in Austria | |
| 1847 | Foundation of the first Baptist church in Switzerland by Johann Gerhard Oncken | |
| 1848 | Julius Köbner wrote the manifesto of free early Christianity to the German people , an early commitment to freedom of belief and the separation of church and state . | |
| The first Swedish Baptist church is organized. | ||
| 1849 | In Hamburg the union of the united congregations of baptized Christians in Germany and Denmark is founded . | |
| 1861 | The first Polish Baptist church was founded in Adamow . | |
| 1862 | The first Romanian Baptist church is established in Bucharest . | |
| 1864, 1869 | Church planting in southern Russia and Turkey / ( Catalui ) (see Baptists in Ukraine , Baptists in Turkey ) | |
| 1871 | October November | A dispute arises in the Hamburg community over the question of the autonomy of the local community. Oncken advocates a hierarchically ordered community association. His opponents, who advocate a loose community union, finally prevailed after a year-long dispute. |
| 1874 | Foundation of the South-West Russian and Bulgarian Association of Baptized Churches | |
| 1875 | 7th of July | The Prussian government enacts a law granting the Baptist congregations in Prussia corporation rights. |
| 1877 | 3rd August | The Baptist regional association Rheinische Vereinigung is founded. |
| 1879 | The newly formed Baptist congregations in Russia , Poland and the Baltic states are merging to form national associations. | |
| 1880 | Establishment of the first seminary in Hamburg | |
| 1884 | January 2nd | Johann Gerhard Oncken dies in Zurich . He is buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg. |
| The first Baptist church is established in Estonia . | ||
| 1887 | The first Baptist deaconess mother house in Berlin is founded. | |
| 1891 | The first German Baptist missionary is sent to Cameroon . |
1901 to 2000
| year | Day month | event |
|---|---|---|
| 1905 | In London is Baptist World Alliance was founded. | |
| 1908 | The first European Baptist Congress takes place in Berlin . | |
| 1924 | Foundation of the Swiss Baptist Union | |
| 1930 | The Federation of Baptist Congregations is recognized as a public corporation . | |
| 1934 | July August | In Berlin Sports Palace , a major European conference will be held Baptiste. The occasion is the hundredth anniversary of the German Baptist congregations. |
| 1937 | The Union of Free Church Christians (BfC) is founded. | |
| 1938 | The Elim congregations join the Union of Baptist Churches . | |
| 1942 | The Union of Baptist and Elim Churches merges with the Union of Free Church Christians ( Brethren Churches ) to form the Union of Evangelical Free Churches (BEFG) in Germany. | |
| 1949 | Foundation of the European Baptist Federation (EBF) | |
| September 4th | The international Baptist seminar with 28 students opens in Rüschlikon / Switzerland . Above all, it also has the task of providing theological training for pastor candidates from the Eastern Bloc . | |
| 1953 | Foundation of the Austrian Baptist Union | |
| 1968 | 4. April | The American Baptist pastor and civil rights activist Martin Luther King succumbs to an assassination attempt in Memphis, Tennessee . |
| 1969 | 10th of May | The Evangelical Free Churches of the GDR form their own federation after a special working group East existed as early as the early 1950s and the Cold War after the building of the Wall in 1961 made cooperation between FRG and GDR communities almost impossible. |
| 1974-2000 | In these years about 250,000 members travel from Baptists churches (Baptists, Evangelical Christians-Baptists and from Mennonite Brethren a) of the USSR and later from Russia to Germany.
They form their own associations, many live as independent local congregations, some join the BEFG. There are also about the same number of children and young people who do not count as church members. |
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| 1977 | The new creed of the Evangelical Free Churches, the so-called Account of Faith , appears. | |
| 1990 | The reunification of the East and West German Federation of Evangelical Free Churches is initiated. | |
| 1997 | The theological seminary moves from Hamburg to Elstal near Berlin in the former Olympic village of the 1936 Summer Games |
From 2001 onwards
| year | Day month | event |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | The first edition of the new hymn book Fieren & Loben appears - in cooperation with the Association of Free Protestant Congregations in Germany . | |
| 2004 | October | The Southern Baptist Convention leaves the World Baptist Federation . |
| 2007 | 16th of July | The theological seminar of the German Baptists is recognized as a technical college |
See also
- Timeline of the history of the Anabaptists
- Central Oncken Archive of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches - The Oncken Archive collects material and data on the history of German Baptists and the history of the Brethren movement in the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches.
Individual evidence
- ^ Günter Balders: One Lord - One Faith - One Baptism. 150 years of Baptist congregations in Germany , Wuppertal and Kassel 1984, ISBN 3-7893-7883-6 , pp. 290ff.
- ↑ Declaration by the Science Council / press release ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
literature
- Günter Balders: One Lord - One Faith - One Baptism. 150 years of Baptist congregations in Germany , Wuppertal and Kassel 1984, ISBN 3-7893-7883-6