Episcopal Baptist

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The Église Épiscopale Baptiste is a baptist denomination in Democratic Republic of the Congo. It began with evangelical missionaries who accepted the baptist doctrines in and organized this denomination retaining the episcopal polity. The Church became autonomous in 1956.

In 2007 there are ten bishops, and 105,000 baptized members in 110 territorial parishes. Most of them in the nine provinces of DRC and some in Angola and Zambia. The pastor are under supervision from the bishops, who assign them a church.^[1]

The EPB is member of the World Council of Churches and the Église du Christ au Congo.