Triennial Convention
Baptist · 1814 · United States
The first national Baptist body in America, formed in 1814 to sustain foreign missions; its societies (missions, publication, home missions) were the denomination until the slavery division of 1845 left it northern, and its 1907 reorganization produced the Northern Baptist Convention.
Triennial Convention was formed in 1814. It ended as a separate body in 1907, entering American Baptist Churches USA. Triennial Convention's institutional line runs back through Particular Baptists, Congregationalists, Church of England, Roman Catholicism to the post-apostolic church. No body on this tree is the assembly of Acts 2; where a body claims that, the claim appears in the claimed-lineage layer.
Between the post-apostolic church and Triennial Convention stand 4 divisions along the institutional line, counting separations and disputed forks, not mergers, renewals or national organizations.
At a glance
- Formed
- In 1814
- Family
- Baptist
- Region
- United States
- Ended
- It ended as a separate body in 1907, entering American Baptist Churches USA.
- Key figures
- Luther Rice, Adoniram Judson, Ann Judson, Richard Furman
- Cause tags
- Geography
- Also known as
- General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States
What it was organized out of
- National organization of Particular Baptists, not a separation from it.
Bodies organized out of it or separated from it: The Disciples (Campbell movement), Millerite movement, Southern Baptist Convention, American Baptist Churches USA, National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., Primitive Baptists.
On the tree
Solid lines are separations and unions; dashed lines are renewals that began inside a body; dotted gray lines are national organizations of one communion; a diamond marks a fork event where neither side is drawn as the one that left. Every line runs back to the post-apostolic church; no body descends from the assembly of Acts 2.
Sources
Research compiled July 2026. Page data built 2026-10-10.