European Baptist Federation

The European Baptist Federation (EBF) is a federation of 51 Baptist associations and is one of six regional fellowships in the Baptist World Alliance. The EBF was founded in Ruschlikon, Switzerland, in 1949. It lays a great deal of emphasis on human rights, religious liberty and aid programs. The Federation represents about 12,942 congregations of Baptists with 739,105 members. The current general secretary is Rev. Anthony Peck.

Statistics

The year is the year of the statistic data regarding the number of Baptist Churches and members.

Country Year Churches[1] Members[1] Total population number of baptists
/ 100,000 citizens
Armenia 20111504,8503,262,200149
Austria 2011261,5198,458,02318
Azerbaijan 2011223,0009,356,5003.2
Belarus201131213,8849,462,400147
Belgium20112697211,139,2929
Bosnia and Herzegovina201152003,839,7375
Bulgaria20111285,1507,364,57070
Croatia2011502,0004,290,61247
Czech Republic2011402,33210,513,20922
Denmark2011555,4125,602,62897
Estonia2011856,0571,294,455468
Finland2011322,3455,399,09043
France20111196,51965,605,00010
Georgia2011755,0854,469,200114
Germany201188488,57181,946,000108
Hungary201130911,5129,957,731116
Italy20111124,27760,870,7457
Latvia2011886,5392,070,371316
Lithuania201183632,976,10012
Moldova201148119,6043,559,500551
Netherlands20117710,60616,778,80663
Norway2011895,6194,985,011113
Poland2011834,87138,538,44713
Portugal2011714,70010,562,17844
Romania20111969107,62619,043,767565
Russia2005-20112,04791,690143,300,00064
Serbia2011832,6837,241,29537
Slovakia2011241,9745,445,32436
Slovenia201171602,055,5278
Spain201115010,85047,265,32123
Sweden201119216,6099,555,893174
Switzerland2011121,0918,014,00014
Ukraine20112,382125,50945,560,251275
United Kingdom20112,590155,89163,181,775247
Uzbekistan2011602,73529,559,1009
TOTAL12,843732,805762,524,05896

Countries from Middle East are also members of the European Baptist Federation:[1]

Country Nr of churches Members
Egypt182,100
Israel19800
Jordan201,200
Lebanon321,600
Syria10600
Totals for Middle East996,300

Members

In October 2003, the bodies from the following countries were members of the European Baptist Federation:

See also

References

Crossing the Boundaries - The story of Fifty Years of the European Baptist Federation, by Bernard Green

  1. 1 2 3 Statistics provided by Baptist World Alliance

External links

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