Union of Evangelical Baptists of Spain

The Union of Evangelical Baptists of Spain (Spanish: Unión Evangélica Bautista de España) is a Baptist Christian denomination in Spain. It is affiliated with the Federation of Evangelical Religious Entities of Spain and the Baptist World Alliance. The headquarters is in Valencia.

Union of Evangelical Baptists of Spain
Unión Evangélica Bautista de España
AbbreviationUEBE
ClassificationEvangelical Christianity
TheologyBaptist
AssociationsBaptist World Alliance
HeadquartersValencia, Spain
Origin1923
Congregations104
Members10,651
Official websiteuebe.org

History

The Union has its origins in the establishment of the first church Baptist in Madrid by William J. Knapp in 1870. [1] In the 1920s, several Baptist churches were also founded by US missions of the Southern Baptist Convention. [2] In 1922, the Baptist Theological Institute (now Faculty of Theology of the Evangelical Baptist Union of Spain) was inaugurated in Barcelona. [3] In 1923, the Union is officially founded.[4]In 1928, the first convention took place.[5] In 2004, the Union had 91 churches.[6] In 2016, it has 104 churches and 10,651 members. [7]

References
  1. William Cathcart, The Baptist Encyclopedia - Volume 3, The Baptist Standard Bearer, USA, 2001, p. 1088
  2. Robert E. Johnson, A Global Introduction to Baptist Churches, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2010, p. 317
  3. John H. Y. Briggs, A Dictionary of European Baptist Life and Thought, Wipf and Stock Publishers, USA, 2009, p. 476
  4. UEBE, Breve Cronología UEBE, uebe.org, Spain, retrieved December 3, 2018.
  5. John H. Y. Briggs, A Dictionary of European Baptist Life and Thought, Wipf and Stock Publishers, USA, 2009, p. 476.
  6. Erwin Fahlbusch, Geoffrey William Bromiley, Jan Milic Lochman, John Mbiti, Jaroslav Pelikan, The Encyclodedia of Christianity, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, USA, 2008, p. 145
  7. Baptist World Alliance, Statistics, bwanet.org, USA, retrieved December 3, 2018
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