Bengal-Orissa-Bihar Baptist Convention

Bihar, India

Odisha, Bihar India


Bengal Orissa Bihar Baptist Convention is a Protestant denomination of India. It operates in Odisha, Bihar and West Bengal, in the eastern part of India. The denomination has about 12,000 members, and approximately 70 congregations.

The church grew out of the missionary work of Free Will Baptists in this part of India, which started in 1836. In 1911 the Free Will Baptists handed the work over to the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society.

The status of this member church is being clarified. No updated information is available. The numbers of membership and local churches are taken from the World Christian Encyclopedia and date from 1995.