Clint Pressley, pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, has been elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, beating out five other candidates in an atypically crowded field.
Messengers gathered in Indianapolis, Indiana, voted Wednesday morning to elect Pressley on the second runoff ballot, with him receiving 4,244 votes or 56.12%. The first two votes were held on Tuesday evening.
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