Cameroon Baptist Convention


The Cameroon Baptist Convention is a Baptist Christian denomination in Cameroon. It is affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance. The headquarters is in Bamenda.

History

The Convention had its origins in a mission of the Baptist Missionary Society in 1841 by English and Jamaican missionaries including Joseph Jackson Fuller and Joseph Merrick. In 1931, the mission was taken over by the North American Baptist Conference. In 1954, the Cameroon Baptist Convention was formally founded. In 2017, it had 1,529 churches and 218,230 members.