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The Baptist Church is the third largest Protestant denomination in the world. It began about the same time as the major Reformation that occurred in Europe in the 1500’s. The first ancestors of the Baptist Church of today were called Anabaptists. Ana- means re-and these Christians believed that in order to be baptized a person needed to be old enough to choose baptism into a particular faith. This made the Baptist Church highly unpopular even among the other Protestant religions of the day and they were persecuted and even killed for their beliefs.

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In 1637, Roger Williams established the first Baptist Church in the United States in Rhode Island. Then, during the religious “Awakening” which occurred in the following 200 years or so, the Church really began to gain a following and people felt free to join. People were feeling more independent about their religious freedoms and did not necessarily feel that they should belong to the church they were born into.