Manipur Baptist Convention


Manipur Baptist Convention is an apex body of the Baptist Churches in Manipur, India. As of 2015, it has 1,303 churches and 196,217 baptized members. It is under the Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India. The convention is also a member of Asia Pacific Baptist Federation and Baptist World Alliance. The General Secretary of the Manipur Baptist Convention is Wungnaoting Konghar.

History

Missionary from the American Baptist Mission arrived in Manipur in 1896. The first converts the missionary had were Tangkhul Nagas. They in turn converted neighboring ethnic tribes to Christianity. In 1903 A. Porom Singh became the first Meitei convert.

Statistics

The statistics for the MBC is given below with the number of churches and number of Baptized Church members only as on 2011.
Communicant members including children and non-baptized family members are not included in the statistics.