In 2003, the institute has about 10,000 members worldwide, organized into a number of independent congregations.

Eventually they each founded independent black congregations in 1794.

They moved to a nearby building in order to continue as an independent congregation.

Shortly afterwards an independent congregation started to meet in the church.

He left the congregation in June 1881 to form an independent congregation.

The church now rents space to an independent Chinese congregation.

On the eve of Revolution about 400 independent congregations were reported throughout the colonies.

Typically each village or group of villages organized an independent congregation.

The church is an independent congregation "gathered" in 1789.

Like the Benedictines, they do not form one legal body, but are a union of various independent religious congregations.