The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. is the largest historically African-American denomination in the United States and the second-largest Baptist body in the country, organized in 1895 through the merger of three earlier Black Baptist conventions and tracing its congregational life to churches founded under slavery. It holds believer's baptism by immersion, congregational polity and local-church autonomy, and stands in the broad Baptist confessional stream shaped by the New Hampshire Confession, without binding subscription to a confession. AskCredo places the NBC USA in the B-tier as a historically orthodox Baptist body on gospel essentials, noting that its soteriology varies congregation by congregation and that it names no confession the library can quote in its behalf.
None formal; New Hampshire Confession heritage
congregational
mixed
North America · Founded 1895
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