The Convention Assembly meets annually, electing officers, addressing issues, and offering workshops. According to its mission statement, "[t]he Convention exists to assist our churches to carry out their individual mission for Christ and to do that which we believe God calls us to do together." The Canadian Baptist is a quarterly newsletter published by the Convention. McMaster Divinity College is affiliated with McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Convention offices are located in Etobicoke, Ontario. BCOQ is a member of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and Canadian Baptist Ministries.
Around the turn of the 20th century, the Convention was composed of over 450 churches with about 44,000 members. Due to internal controversies, such as fundamentalism vs. modernism, and the strength of the United Church of Canada in Ontario and the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec, the BCOQ has declined to about 380 churches in 2003, with an estimated 45,000 members.
External links
Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec (http://www.baptist.ca/home/index.php) - official Web Site
McMaster Divinity College (http://divinity.mcmaster.ca/about) - official Web Site
Sources
Baptists Around the World, by Albert W. Wardin, Jr.
The Baptist Heritage: Four Centuries of Baptist Witness, by H. Leon McBeth
Since one of the distinctives of the Baptist denomination is the idea of the priesthood of the believer, Baptists reject the concept that there is authority flowing down from previous church leaders which can be traced to the apostles in apostolic succession.
Baptist churches are not under the direct administrative control of any other body, such as a national council or a leader such as a bishop or pope.
Baptists have played an important role in the struggle for freedom of religion in England, the United States, and other countries, including many who were imprisoned and even died for their faith.
The BGC broke from the American BaptistConvention in 1944 due to the Convention's participation in the National Council of Churches and its imposition of a creed.
This category is dedicated to the federation formed by the BaptistConvention of Ontario and Quebec, the Baptist Union of Western Canada, the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches, and the Union d'Eglises Baptistes Françaises au Canada.
The Primitive Baptist movement claims primary descent from certain Baptist churches in Wales and in the Midlands of England; they primarily adhere to the Midland Confession of 1655 and the London Confession of 1644, and to the London Confession of 1689.
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