The Myanmar Baptist Convention (Burmese: မြန်မာနိုင်ငံနှစ်ခြင်း ခရစ်ယာန်အသင်းချုပ်, romanized: myanmarninengan nhaithkyinn hkaraityaran aasainnhkyaote) is a Baptist Christian denomination in Myanmar. It is affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance and the World Council of Churches. The headquarters is in Yangon.
Myanmar Baptist Convention | |
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မြန်မာနိုင်ငံနှစ်ခြင်း ခရစ်ယာန်အသင်းချုပ် | |
Abbreviation | MBC |
Classification | Evangelicalism |
Theology | Baptist |
Associations | Baptist World Alliance |
Headquarters | Yangon, Myanmar |
Origin | 1865 |
Congregations | 5,337 |
Members | 1,013,499 |
Seminaries | 49 |
Official website | mbc-1813 |
The Convention has its origins in an American mission of the American Baptist Mission (American Baptist Churches USA) in 1813 from Adoniram Judson and Ann Judson to Yangon. [1] It was officially founded in 1865 as the Burma Baptist Missionary Convention.[2] In 2006, it had 4,522 churches and 1,142,655 members.[3] According to a census published by the association in 2023, it claimed 5,337 churches and 1,013,499 members. [4]
It has 49 affiliated institutes of theology. [5] The main is the Myanmar Institute of Theology, founded in 1927 and located in Insein.