Garo Baptist Convention

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Garo Baptist Convention is a Protestant denomination of India and Bangladesh. It is named after the ethnic group of the name Garo. Most members of this church are in Meghalaya.

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The Garo Baptist Convention consists of churches planted by the American Baptist missionaries since the mid 19th century in the state of Meghalaya.

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This Convention of Baptist churches in Meghalaya consists of more than 2,100 churches and more than 200,000 baptised adults.

Garo Baptist Convention is also a member of the Council of Baptist Churches in North-East India or CBCNEI, an umbrella organization of Baptist Churches in North-East India, which has other sister Baptist Associations such as the Nagaland Baptist Church Council.

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