Southern Baptist churches, refused mission appointments for slaveholders by the national boards, organize the Southern Baptist Convention at Augusta, Georgia; it becomes the largest Protestant denomination in the United States.
The Event
- Date
- 1845 (exact)
- Era
- Modern; Standard ecumenical periodization
- Location
- Augusta; today Augusta, Georgia, USA
- Traditions
- Christianity
- Streams
- Baptist
Primary Sources
- Proceedings of the Southern Baptist Convention (1845)
Secondary Sources
- González, The Story of Christianity, vols. 1–2 (Harper, 2010)
Provenance: HIST-0077; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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