The Union has its origins in the establishment of the first church
Baptist in
Madrid by William J. Knapp in 1870. [1] In the 1920s, several Baptist churches were also founded by an American mission of the
International Mission Board. [2] In 1922, the Baptist Theological Institute (now
Faculty of Theology of the Evangelical Baptist Union of Spain) was inaugurated in
Barcelona. [3] In 1923, the Union is officially founded.[4] In 1928, the first convention took place.[5] In 2004, the Union had 91 churches.[6] According to a census published by the association in 2023, it claimed 175 churches and 11,438 members. [7]
^ John H. Y. Briggs, A Dictionary of European Baptist Life and Thought, Wipf and Stock Publishers, USA, 2009, p. 476.
^Erwin Fahlbusch, Geoffrey William Bromiley, Jan Milic Lochman, John Mbiti, Jaroslav Pelikan, The Encyclodedia of Christianity, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, USA, 2008, p. 145
^ Baptist World Alliance,
Members, baptistworld.org, USA, retrieved May 5, 2023