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**[[Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church]] - 5 million<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.catholicshaveachoice.com/Patriarch%20Dom%20Luis.htm |title=Beliefs |publisher=Catholicshaveachoice.com |date= |accessdate=2011-08-13}}</ref> |
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**[[Old Catholic Church]] - 0.6 million |
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**[[Society of St. Pius X]] - 0.5 million |
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===[[Protestantism]] - 600–800 million=== |
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Revision as of 16:37, 21 November 2012
This is a list of Christian denominations by number of members. It is inevitably partial and generally based on claims by the denominations themselves. The numbers should therefore be considered approximate. The list includes all the Eastern Catholic Churches affiliated to the Catholic Church, all the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches with some recognition, relevant breakaway churches of the Catholic Church, the Protestant denominations and the Anglican churches with at least 0.2 million members, and all the other Christian branches with a distinct theological tradition.
Christian denominational families
Major denominational families in Christianity:
Schism (1552)
(16th century)
(11th century)
Council of Ephesus (431)
Council of Chalcedon (451)
- (Not shown are ante-Nicene, nontrinitarian, and restorationist denominations.)
Largest denominations in the world
Catholicism - 1.2 billion
- Catholic Church - 1,166 million[1]
- Latin Church - 1,149 million
- Eastern Catholic Churches - 17 million
- Alexandrian Rite
- Ethiopian Catholic Church - 0.2 million[2]
- Coptic Catholic Church - 0.2 million[2]
- Antiochene Rite
- Maronite Catholic Church - 3.1 million[2]
- Syro-Malankara Catholic Church - 0.4 million[2]
- Syriac Catholic Church - 0.1 million[2]
- Armenian Rite
- Armenian Catholic Church - 0.4 million[2]
- Chaldean Rite
- Syro-Malabar Catholic Church - 3.8 million[2]
- Chaldean Catholic Church - 0.4 million[2]
- Byzantine Rite
- Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church - 4.3 million[2]
- Melkite Greek Catholic Church - 1.3 million[2]
- Romanian Catholic Church - 0.7 million[2]
- Ruthenian Catholic Church - 0.5 million[2]
- Hungarian Greek Catholic Church - 0.3 million[2]
- Slovak Greek Catholic Church - 0.2 million[2]
- Italo-Albanian Catholic Church - 0.1 million[2]
- Belarusian Greek Catholic Church - 0.1 million[2]
- Georgian Byzantine Catholic Church - 0.01 million[3]
- Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church - 0.01 million[2]
- Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church - 0.01 million[2]
- Croatian Greek Catholic Church - 0.01 million[2]
- Greek Byzantine Catholic Church - 0.01 million[2]
- Macedonian Greek Catholic Church - 0.01 million[2]
- Russian Greek Catholic Church - 0.01 million[2]
- Alexandrian Rite
- Breakaway Catholic Churches - 25 million
- Apostolic Catholic Church - 8 million[4]
- Philippine Independent Church - 6 million[5]
- Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association - 5 million[6]
- Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church - 5 million[7]
- Old Catholic Church - 0.6 million
Protestantism - 600–800 million
Estimates of the total number of Protestants are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in the category. It seems however clear that Protestantism is the second largest major group of Christians after Catholicism by number of followers. Often that number is put at 800 million.[8] Some sources, which put the number at 800 million, include also Anglicanism (see below) within Protestantism.[9][10]
- Historical Protestantism - 350 million
- Baptist churches - 100 million[11]
- Southern Baptist Convention - 16.3 million[12]
- National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. - 8.5 million[13]
- National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. - 3.1 million[13]
- Nigerian Baptist Convention - 2.5 million[13]
- Progressive National Baptist Convention - 2.5 million[13]
- Baptist General Convention of Texas - 2.3 million[13]
- Baptist Union of Uganda - 1.5 million[13]
- American Baptist Churches USA - 1.4 million[13]
- Brazilian Baptist Convention - 1.3 million[13]
- Baptist Bible Fellowship International - 1.2 million[14]
- Baptist Community of the Congo River - 1 million[13]
- National Primitive Baptist Convention of the U.S.A. - 1 million[14]
- National Missionary Baptist Convention of America - 1 million
- Myanmar Baptist Convention - 0.9 million[13]
- Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches - 0.8 million[15]
- Korea Baptist Convention - 0.8 million[13]
- Baptist Convention of Kenya - 0.8 million[13]
- Myanmar Baptist Convention - 0.7 million[13]
- Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India - 0.6 million[16]
- Cooperative Baptist Fellowship - 0.5 million[13]
- Nagaland Baptist Church Council - 0.5 million[13]
- Baptist Convention in Tanzania - 0.5 million[13]
- Orissa Evangelical Baptist Crusade - 0.5 million[13]
- Baptist General Association of Virginia - 0.5 million[13]
- National Baptist Convention (Brazil) - 0.4 million[13]
- Church of Christ in Congo–Baptist Community of Congo - 0.4 million[17]
- Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches - 0.3[13]
- American Baptist Association - 0.3 million[18]
- Union of Baptist Churches in Rwanda - 0.3 million[13]
- Association of Baptist Churches in Rwanda - 0.3 million[13]
- Garo Baptist Convention - 0.2 million[13]
- Baptist Community of Western Congo - 0.2 million[13]
- Baptist Missionary Association of America - 0.2 million[19]
- Conservative Baptist Association of America - 0.2 million[20]
- National Association of Free Will Baptists - 0.2 million[21]
- Canadian Baptist Ministries - 0.2 million[13]
- National Baptist Convention of Mexico - 0.2 million[13]
- Manipur Baptist Convention - 0.2 million[13]
- Convention of Baptist Churches of the Northern Circars - 0.2 million[13]
- Baptist Community in Central Africa - 0.2 million[13]
- Baptist Convention of Malawi - 0.2 million[13]
- Lutheranism - 75 million[22]
- Evangelical Church in Germany - 24.5 million[23]
- Church of Sweden - 6.7 million[24]
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania - 5.6 million[24]
- Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus - 5.3 million[24]
- United Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India - 4.5 million[25]
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - 4.5 million[24]
- Church of Denmark - 4.5 million[24]
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland - 4.4 million[24]
- Batak Christian Protestant Church - 4.2 million[24]
- Church of Norway - 4.0 million[24]
- Christian Protestant Church in Indonesia - 3.6 million[24]
- Malagasy Lutheran Church - 3.0 million[24]
- Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod - 2.5 million[26]
- The Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria - 1.9 million[24]
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea - 0.9 million[24]
- Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil - 0.7 million[24]
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia - 0.7 million[24]
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa - 0.6 million[24]
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Namibia - 0.4 million[24]
- Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod - 0.4 million[27]
- Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia - 0.4 million[24]
- The Indonesian Protestant Church - 0.4 million[24]
- The Protestant Christian Church - 0.4 million[24]
- Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria - 0.3 million[24]
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cameroon - 0.2 million[24]
- Church of Iceland - 0.2 million[24]
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil - 0.2 million[28]
- Simalungun Protestant Christian Church - 0.2 million[24]
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe - 0.2 million[24]
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia - 0.2 million[24]
- Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Hungary - 0.2 million[24]
- Union of Protestant Churches of Alsace and Lorraine - 0.2 million[24]
- The Lutheran Council of Great Britain - 0.2 million[24]
- Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church - 0.2 million[24]
- Methodism - 75 million
- United Methodist Church - 12 million[29]
- African Methodist Episcopal Church - 2.5 million[30]
- Methodist Church Nigeria - 2 million[31]
- Church of the Nazarene - 2 million[32]
- Methodist Church of Southern Africa - 1.7 million[33]
- Korean Methodist Church - 1.5 million[34]
- African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church - 1.5 million[35]
- The Salvation Army - 1.4 million [36]
- United Methodist Church of Ivory Coast - 1 million[37]
- Free Methodist Church - 0.9 million[38]
- Christian Methodist Episcopal Church - 0.9 million[39]
- Methodist Church Ghana - 0.8 million[40]
- Methodist Church in India - 0.6 million[41]
- Methodist Church in Kenya - 0.5 million[42]
- Wesleyan Church - 0.4 million[43]
- Evangelical Free Church of America - 0.4 million[44]
- Methodist Church of Great Britain - 0.3 million[45]
- Methodist Church in Brazil - 0.2 million[46]
- Reformed churches - 75 million
- Presbyterianism - 40 million
- Presbyterian Church of East Africa - 4.0 million[47]
- Presbyterian Church of Africa - 3.4 million[48]
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) - 3.0 million[49]
- United Church of Canada - 2.8 million[50]
- Church of Christ in Congo–Presbyterian Community of Congo - 2.5 million[51]
- Presbyterian Church of Korea - 2.4 million[52]
- Presbyterian Church of Cameroon - 1.8 million[53]
- Church of Central Africa, Presbyterian - 1.3 million[54]
- Church of Scotland - 1.1 million[55]
- Presbyterian Church of the Sudan - 1.0 million[56]
- Presbyterian Church in Cameroon - 0.7 million[57]
- Presbyterian Church of Brazil - 0.7 million [58]
- Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana - 0.6 million[59]
- United Church of Christ in the Philippines - 0.5 million[60]
- Presbyterian Church of Nigeria - 0.5 million[61]
- Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa - 0.5 million[62]
- Presbyterian Church of Pakistan - 0.4 million[63]
- Presbyterian Church in Ireland - 0.3 million
- Uniting Church in Australia - 0.3 million[64]
- Presbyterian Church in America - 0.3 million[65]
- Presbyterian Church of Korea - 0.3 million[66]
- Presbyterian Church in Rwanda - 0.3 million[67]
- Presbyterian Church in Taiwan - 0.3 million[68]
- Continental Reformed churches - 30 million
- Church of Jesus Christ in Madagascar - 3.5 million[69]
- United Church of Zambia - 3.0 million[70]
- Protestant Church in the Netherlands - 2.5 million[71]
- Swiss Reformed Church - 2.4 million[72]
- Evangelical Church of Cameroon - 2.0 million[73]
- Protestant Evangelical Church in Timor - 2.0 million[74]
- Dutch Reformed Church - 1.1 million
- Christian Evangelical Church in Minahasa - 0.7 million[75]
- United Church in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands - 0.6 million[76]
- Protestant Church in Western Indonesia - 0.6 million[77]
- Evangelical Christian Church in Tanah Papua - 0.6 million[78]
- Protestant Church in the Moluccas - 0.6 million[79]
- Reformed Church in Hungary - 0.6 million[80]
- Reformed Church in Romania - 0.6 million[81]
- Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa - 0.5 million[82]
- Toraja Church - 0.4 million[83]
- Reformed Church of France - 0.4 million[84]
- Lesotho Evangelical Church - 0.3 million[85]
- Evangelical Christian Church in Halmahera - 0.3 million[86]
- Christian Church of Sumba - 0.3 million[87]
- Karo Batak Protestant Church - 0.3 million[88]
- Reformed Church in America - 0.3 million[89]
- Christian Reformed Church in North America - 0.3 million[90]
- Christian Reformed Church of Nigeria - 0.3 million[91]
- Reformed Church in Zambia - 0.3 million[92]
- Kalimantan Evangelical Church - 0.2 million[93]
- Javanese Christian Churches - 0.2 million[94]
- Indonesia Christian Church - 0.2 million[95]
- Church of Christ in the Sudan Among the Tiv - 0.2 million[96]
- Church of Lippe - 0.2 million[97]
- Evangelical Church of Congo - 0.2 million[98]
- Evangelical Church of Gabon - 0.2 million[99]
- Christian Evangelical Church of Sangihe Talaud - 0.2 million[100]
- Central Sulawesi Christian Church - 0.2 million[101]
- Evangelical Reformed Church in Bavaria and Northwestern Germany - 0.2 million[102]
- Congregationalism - 5 million
- United Church of Christ - 1.2 million[103]
- Evangelical Congregational Church in Angola - 0.9 million[104]
- United Congregational Church of Southern Africa - 0.5 million[105]
- Presbyterianism - 40 million
- Anabaptism and Free churches - 5 million
- Schwarzenau Brethren/German Baptist groups - 1.5 million[106]
- Mennonites - 1.5 million
- Plymouth Brethren - 1 million[107]
- Moravians - 0.7 million[108]
- Amish - 0.2 million
- Hutterites - 0.2 million
- Quakers - 0.4 million
- Waldensians - 0.05 million
- Baptist churches - 100 million[11]
- Modern Protestantism - 274 million[citation needed]
- Pentecostalism - 130 million
- Assemblies of God - 60 million
- International Circle of Faith - 11 million[109]
- Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)- 9 million
- International Church of the Foursquare Gospel - 8 million
- Apostolic Church - 6 million
- Church of God in Christ - 6.5 million[110]
- United Pentecostal Church International - 4 million
- The Pentecostal Mission - 2.5 million
- Christian Congregation of Brazil - 2.5 million
- Universal Church of the Kingdom of God - 2 million
- Church of God of Prophecy - 1 million
- God is Love Pentecostal Church - 0.8 million
- Nondenominational evangelicalism - 80 million
- Calvary Chapel - 25 million
- Born Again Movement - 20 million
- Association of Vineyard Churches - 15 million
- Christian and Missionary Alliance - 4 million[111]
- True Jesus Church - 2.5 million
- Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) - 1.2 million
- African initiated churches - 40 million
- Zion Christian Church - 15 million
- Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim - 10 million
- Kimbanguist Church - 5.5 million
- Church of the Lord (Aladura) - 3.6 million[112]
- Council of African Instituted Churches - 3 million[113]
- Church of Christ Light of the Holy Spirit - 1.4 million[114]
- African Church of the Holy Spirit - 0.7 million[115]
- African Israel Church Nineveh - 0.5 million[116]
- Seventh-day Adventist Church - 17 million
- Restoration Movement - 7 million
- Churches of Christ - 5 million
- Christian churches and churches of Christ - 1.1 million[14]
- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) - 0.7 million[117]
- Oneness Pentecostalism - 6 million
- United Pentecostal Church International - 4 million
- Pentecostal Assemblies of the World - 1.5 million
- Pentecostalism - 130 million
Eastern Orthodoxy - 230 million
- Autocephalous churches
- Russian Orthodox Church - 125 million
- Romanian Orthodox Church - 23 million
- Serbian Orthodox Church - 11.5 million
- Church of Greece - 11 million
- Bulgarian Orthodox Church - 10 million
- Georgian Orthodox Church - 5 million
- Greek Orthodox Church of Constantinople - 3.5 million
- Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch - 2.5 million
- Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria - 1.5 million
- Orthodox Church in America - 1.2 million
- Polish Orthodox Church - 1 million
- Albanian Orthodox Church - 0.8 million
- Church of Cyprus - 0.7 million
- Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem - 0.14 million
- Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church - 0.07 million
- Autonomous churches
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) - 7.2 million[118]
- Moldovan Orthodox Church - 3.2 million
- Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia - 1.25 million
- Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia - 0.62 million
- Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric - 0.34 million
- Estonian Orthodox Church - 0.3 million
- Patriarchal Exarchate in Western Europe - 0.15 million
- Finnish Orthodox Church - 0.08 million
- Chinese Orthodox Church - 0.03 million
- Japanese Orthodox Church - 0.02 million
- Latvian Orthodox Church - 0.02 million
- Non-universally recognized churches
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) - 5.5 million[118]
- Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church - 3.8 million
- Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church - 2.4 million
- Macedonian Orthodox Church - 2 million
- Orthodox Church of Greece (Holy Synod in Resistance) - 0.75 million
- Old Calendar Romanian Orthodox Church - 0.50 million
- Old Calendar Bulgarian Orthodox Church - 0.45 million
- Croatian Orthodox Church - 0.36 million
- Orthodox Church in Italy - 0.12 million
- Montenegrin Orthodox Church - 0.05 million
- Other separated Orthodox groups
- Old Believers - 5.5 million
- Greek Old Calendarists - 0.86 million
- True Orthodox Church - 0.85 million
Anglicanism - 85 million
- Anglican Communion - 80 million[119]
- Church of England - 25.0 million[120]
- Church of Nigeria - 18.0 million[121]
- Church of Uganda - 8.1 million[122]
- Anglican Church of Kenya - 5.0 million[123]
- Episcopal Church of Sudan - 4.5 million[124]
- Church of South India - 4 million[125]
- Anglican Church of Australia - 3.9 million[126]
- Episcopal Church in the United States - 2.4 million[127]
- Anglican Church of Southern Africa - 2.3 million[128]
- Anglican Church of Tanzania - 2.0 million[129]
- Anglican Church of Canada - 2.0 million[130]
- Church of North India - 1.5 million[131]
- Anglican Church of Rwanda - 1.0 million[132]
- Church of the Province of Central Africa - 0.9 million[133]
- Anglican Church of Burundi - 0.8 million[134]
- Church in the Province of the West Indies - 0.8 million[135]
- Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean - 0.5 million[136]
- Church of Christ in Congo–Anglican Community of Congo - 0.5 million[137]
- Church of Pakistan - 0.5 million[138]
- Church of Ireland - 0.4 million[139]
- Church of the Province of West Africa - 0.3 million[140]
- Church of the Province of Melanesia - 0.2 million[141]
- Continuing Anglican movement and independent Anglican churches - 1.5 million
- Traditional Anglican Communion - 0.4 million[142]
- Church of England in South Africa - 0.1 million[143]
Oriental Orthodoxy - 82 million
- Autocephalous churches in communion
- Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church - 48 million[144]
- Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria - 15.5 million
- Armenian Orthodox Church - 8 million
- Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church - 2.5 million
- Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church - 2 million[145]
- Armenian Orthodox Church of Cilicia - 1.5 million
- Syriac Orthodox Church - 1.05 million
- Autonomous churches in communion
- Jacobite Syrian Christian Church - 1.2 million[146]
- Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople - 0.42 million
- Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem - 0.34 million
- French Coptic Orthodox Church - 0.01 million
- British Orthodox Church - 0.01 million
- Churches not in communion
- Mar Thoma Syrian Church - 1.1 million
- Malabar Independent Syrian Church - 0.06 million
Restorationism - 45 million
- Latter Day Saint movement - 14.7 million
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) - 14.4 million[147]
- Community of Christ - 0.2 million[148]
- Members Church of God International - 7 million[citation needed]
- New Apostolic Church - 10 million[149]
- Jehovah's Witnesses - 7.65 million [150][151]
- Iglesia ni Cristo - 6 million[152]
- Church of Christ, Scientist - 0.4 million
- Friends of Man - 0.07 million
- Christadelphians - 0.06 million
Unitarian Universalism - 0.6 million[153]
- Unitarian Universalist Association - 0.2 million[154]
Nestorianism - 0.6 million
- Assyrian Church of the East - 0.5 million
- Ancient Church of the East - 0.1 million
See also
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External links
- Adherents.com
- Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches
- National Council of Churches USA
- Pew Research Center - News Release 2002
- Association of Religion Data Archives