List of Christian denominations by number of members
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[edit] Christian denominational families
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("Via Media")
(Western rites)
(Eastern rites)
(Including Assyrian Church of the East)
(16th century)
(11th century)
"Union"
[edit] Largest denominations in the world
- Catholicism - 1115 million
- Roman Catholic Church - 1100 million
- Eastern Catholic Churches - 15 million
- Old Catholic Church - 0.5 million
- Anglicanism - 73 million
- Anglican Communion - 73 million
- Continuing Anglican Movement
- Protestantism - 500 million
- Historical Protestantism - 340 million
- Baptist churches - 110 million[1]
- Calvinist churches - 75 million
- Methodism - 75 million
- Lutheranism - 70 million[2]
- Anabaptism/Radical Reformation - 4.5 million
- Mennonites - 1.3 million
- Amish - 0.2 million
- Hutterites
- Church of the Brethren - 0.13 million
- Brethren in Christ
- Open Brethren - 1.85 million[3]
- Quakers - 0.35 million
- Pentecostalism - 120 million
- Assemblies of God - 51 million
- New Apostolic Church - 11 million
- Kimbanguist Church - 8 million
- Church of God in Christ - 7 million
- The Pentecostal Mission - 6.7 million
- Apostolic Church - 6 million
- Church of God (Cleveland) - 5 million
- Christian Congregation of Brazil - 2.5 million
- Church of the Lord (Aladura) - 2.5 million
- Zion Christian Church - 2.5 million
- International Church of the Foursquare Gospel - 2 million
- Universal Church of the Kingdom of God - 2 million
- Calvary Chapel
- Restorationism - 30 million
- Seventh-day Adventists - 14 million
- Latter-day Saints - 12.5 million
- Restoration Movement - 4 million
- Nontrinitarianism - 10 million
- Jehovah's Witnesses - 15 million
- Iglesia ni Cristo - 1.68 million[4]
- Oneness Pentecostals
- Unitarianism
- Christadelphians
- Historical Protestantism - 340 million
- Eastern Othodoxy - 225 million
- Autocephalous churches
- Russian Orthodox Church - 120 million
- Romanian Orthodox Church - 20 million
- Serbian Orthodox Church - 10 million
- Church of Greece - 9 million
- Bulgarian Orthodox Church - 9 million
- Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church - 5.0 million
- Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople - 3.5 million
- Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch - 1.5 million
- Orthodox Church in America - 1 million
- Polish Orthodox Church - 1 million
- Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church - 1 million
- Albanian Orthodox Church - 0.6 million
- Cypriot Orthodox Church - 0.45 million
- Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria - 0.35 million
- Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem - 0.26 million
- Autonomous churches
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church - 35 million
- Moldovan Orthodox Church - 2 million
- Metropolis of Western Europe - 0.1 million
- Finnish Orthodox Church - 0.06 million
- Chinese Orthodox Church - 0.03 million
- Estonian Orthodox Church - 0.02 million
- Japanese Orthodox Church - 0.01 million
- Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
- Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia
- Latvian Orthodox Church
- Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai
- Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric
- Churches in resistance
- Not universally recongnized churches
- Churches which opted out
- Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece
- Russian True Orthodox Church
- Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
- Autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America
- Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
- Old Believers
- Autocephalous churches
- Oriental Orthodoxy - 72 million
- Ethiopian Orthodox Church - 39 million (incl. abroad)
- Coptic Orthodox Church - 15 million (of which 11 in Egypt, 4 abroad)
- Armenian Apostolic Church - 7 million (of which 3 in Armenia, 4 abroad)
- Indian Orthodox Church - 4.5 million
- Syriac Orthodox Church - 3.5 million (incl. Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church)
- Eritrean Orthodox Church - 2.5 million
- Mar Thoma Syrian Church - 1.5 million
- Malabar Independent Syrian Church - 1 million
- Assyrian Church of the East - 0.5 million
[edit] Largest denominations in the United States
- The 2002 Pew report puts the make-up of respective Christian denominations in the USA as a percentage of the total population as:
- 1) Protestantism (52%)
- 2) Roman Catholicism (24%)
- 3) Mormonism (2%)
- 4) Orthodoxy (1%)
(Total Christian population as a percentage of the population of the USA = 82%)
Many different branches of the Christian church have membership equalling less than 1% of the total US population, but since the Pew report only polled slightly over 2000 people, the sample is too small to estimate the sizes of these denominations. Therefore, saying that one small church is 'larger' than another is partially guesswork. Even though the sample size is not large enough to accurately differentiate between the respective sizes of some of the smaller churches, the Pew report does give a general picture of the make-up of Christian America in terms of the larger churches.
Source [5]
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ Baptist World Alliance
- ^ Lutheran World Federation
- ^ 'encyclopédie de D. BARRET, "Assemblées de Frères", 1985.
- ^ 1997 Britannica Book of the Year; pg. 781-783.
- ^ Pew Research Council
