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The convention's churches—per its statement of faith—are led by pastors or bishops, and deacons. [45] Within the Baptist tradition according to the 1689 Baptist Confession, the terms "pastor", "elder" and "bishop" constitute a single office. [46]
In the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches, deacons can be any adult male member of the congregation who is in good standing. In some African American Missionary Baptist churches and in churches affiliated with the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. male and female deacons serve as one board. Other churches may have two separate ...
The National Baptist Convention, USA, sued unsuccessfully to obtain ownership of the National Baptist Publishing Board and subsequently created its own Sunday School publishing board. [3] In 1988, another controversy surrounding the publishing board (now the R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation) led to the formation of the National Missionary ...
The International Ministries was founded in 1814 as the Baptist Board for Foreign Missions by the Triennial Convention (now American Baptist Churches USA). [19] The first mission of the organization took place in Burma with the missionaries Adoniram Judson and Ann Hasseltine Judson in 1814. [20]
The presiding bishop is the head clerical and executive leader of the fellowship, exercising authority along with other episcopates to provide administration. Within the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, its bishops claim apostolic succession through Bishop Morton's consecrator, the excommunicated Roman Catholic George Augustus Stallings ...
The bishops of the COGIC denomination are all collectively called "The Board of Bishops". [72] From the Board of Bishops, and the General Assembly of the COGIC, the body of the church composed of clergy and lay delegates that are responsible for making and enforcing the bylaws of the denomination, every four years, twelve bishops from the COGIC ...
A few African-American Baptist congregations have ordained or started calling their senior minister bishop, but without changing congregational polity.In the National Baptist Convention (USA), its statement of faith teaches the bishop and pastor are synonymous; [2] in the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, the bishop and pastor are separate offices.
Furthermore, the pastor is the chairman of the church board. Other than the pastor, the church board consists of deacons and a secretary/treasurer elected by the church members. [48] The board is accountable to the pastor and church members, and pastors are accountable to the quadrennial conferences.