American Baptists form the General Missionary Convention, meeting every three years, to support the Judsons' mission in Burma; national organization among Baptists begins with missions, not doctrine.
The Event
- Date
- 1814 (exact)
- Era
- Modern; Standard ecumenical periodization
- Location
- Philadelphia; today Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Traditions
- Christianity
- Streams
- Baptist
- Key figures
- Adoniram Judson, Luther Rice
Primary Sources
- Proceedings of the first Triennial Convention (1814)
Secondary Sources
- González, The Story of Christianity, vols. 1–2 (Harper, 2010)
Provenance: HIST-0076; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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