Wikipedia's article on American Baptist Churches USA, community edited. Reliable for the standard account: the 1907 reorganization of the Triennial Convention as the Northern Baptist Convention, the 1950 and 1972 renamings, congregational polity across thirty four regions, the 1965 resolution affirming women's ordination, and current membership and headquarters figures.
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A continuously revised, community-edited encyclopedia article rather than an authored or peer reviewed work, matching this corpus's settled precedent for Wikipedia citations, useful for verifiable factual detail rather than as independent scholarly authority. NotesUsed for American Baptist Churches USA's founding, name changes, polity, ordination practice and current statistics; not used for any claim needing a peer reviewed source.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Baptist_Churches_USA
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