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List of Christian denominations

List of Christian denominations

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Some groups included do not consider themselves a denomination
Christian denomination
A Christian denomination is an identifiable religious body under a common name, structure, and doctrine within Christianity. In the Orthodox tradition, Churches are divided often along ethnic and linguistic lines, into separate churches and traditions. Technically, divisions between one group and...

 (e.g., the Catholic Church considers itself the one true Church, and as pre-denominational). Regarding the use of the word "church," the Catholic Church does not consider any groups or denominations to be true "churches" unless they have maintained apostolic succession
Apostolic Succession
Apostolic succession is a doctrine, held by some Christian denominations, which asserts that the chosen successors of the Twelve Apostles, from the first century to the present day, have inherited the spiritual, ecclesiastical and sacramental authority, power, and responsibility that were...

 and observe the seven sacraments (by this definition, the Eastern Orthodox churches are, for the most part, the only other Christian groupings considered by the Catholic Church to be true "churches").

Some groups are large (e.g. Catholics, Lutherans
Lutheranism
Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the theology of Martin Luther, a German reformer. Luther's efforts to reform the theology and practice of the church launched the Protestant Reformation...

, Anglicans
Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a tradition within Christianity comprising churches with historical connections to the Church of England or similar beliefs, worship and church structures. The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the English...

 or Baptists
Baptism
In Christianity, baptism is for the majority the rite of admission , almost invariably with the use of water, into the Christian Church generally and also membership of a particular church tradition...

), while others are just a few small churches, and in most cases the relative size is not evident in this list. Also, modern movements such as Fundamentalist Christianity
Fundamentalist Christianity
Christian fundamentalism, also known as Fundamentalist Christianity, or Fundamentalism, arose out of British and American Protestantism in the late 19th century and early 20th century among evangelical Christians...

, Pietism
Pietism
Pietism was a movement within Lutheranism, lasting from the late 17th century to the mid-18th century and later. It proved to be very influential throughout Protestantism and Anabaptism, inspiring not only Anglican priest John Wesley to begin the Methodist movement, but also Alexander Mack to...

, Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism is a Protestant Christian movement which began in Great Britain in the 1730s and gained popularity in the United States during the series of Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th century.Its key commitments are:...

, Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism is a diverse and complex movement within Christianity that places special emphasis on a direct personal experience of God through the baptism in the Holy Spirit, has an eschatological focus, and is an experiential religion. The term Pentecostal is derived from Pentecost, the Greek...

 and the Holiness movement
Holiness movement
The holiness movement refers to a set of beliefs and practices emerging from the Methodist Christian church in the mid 19th century. The movement is distinguished by its emphasis on John Wesley's doctrine of "Christian perfection" - the belief that it is possible to live free of voluntary sin - and...

 sometimes cross denominational lines, or in some cases create new denominations out of two or more continuing groups, (as is the case for many United and uniting churches
United and uniting churches
United and uniting churches are churches formed from the merger or other form of union of two or more different Protestant denominations.Perhaps the oldest example of a united church is found in Germany, where the Evangelical Church in Germany is a federation of Lutheran, United and Reformed...

, for example). Such subtleties and complexities are not clearly depicted here. Additionally, some groups viewed by non-adherents as denominational actively resist being called a "denomination" and do not have any formal denominational structure, authority, or record-keeping beyond the local congregation; several groups within Restoration Movement
Restoration Movement
The Restoration Movement is a Christian movement that began on the American frontier during the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th century...

 fall into this category.
Note: This is not a complete list, but aims to provide a comprehensible overview of the diversity among denominations of Christianity. As there are reported to be approximately 38,000 Christian denominations, many of which cannot be verified to be significant, only those denominations with Wikipedia articles will be listed in order to ensure that all entries on this list are notable and verifiable.

Note: Between denominations, theologians, and comparative religionists there are considerable disagreements about which groups can be properly called Christian, disagreements arising primarily from doctrinal differences between groups. For the purpose of simplicity, this list is intended to reflect the self-understanding of each denomination. Explanations of different opinions concerning their status as Christian denominations can be found at their respective articles.

Note: There is no official recognition in most parts of the world for religious bodies, and there is no official clearinghouse which could determine the status or respectability of religious bodies. Often there is considerable disagreement between various churches about whether other churches should be labeled with pejorative terms such as "cult", or about whether this or that group enjoys some measure of respectability. Such considerations often vary from place to place, where one religious group may enjoy majority status in one region, but be widely regarded as a "dangerous cult" in another part of the world. Inclusion on this list does not indicate any judgment about the size, importance, or character of a group or its members.



Catholicism


These are the churches which claim continuity (based upon Apostolic Succession
Apostolic Succession
Apostolic succession is a doctrine, held by some Christian denominations, which asserts that the chosen successors of the Twelve Apostles, from the first century to the present day, have inherited the spiritual, ecclesiastical and sacramental authority, power, and responsibility that were...

) with the early Church.

Catholic Church


Catholic Church is composed of two rites; one is the western or latin rite, another is the eastern rite (i.e., Eastern Catholic Churches).

The Latin Rite


The Latin Rite or Church is the largest and most widely known of the 22 Rites that together make up the Catholic Church.

Eastern Catholic Churches


All of the following are particular church
Particular Church
In Catholic canon law, a Particular Church is an ecclesial community headed by a bishop or someone recognised as the equivalent of a bishop.There are two kinds of particular Churches:# Local particular Churches ...

es of the Catholic Church. They are all in communion with the Bishop of Rome and acknowledge his claim of universal jurisdiction and authority. They have some minor distinct theological emphases and expressions (for instance, in the case of those that are of Greek/Byzantine tradition, concerning some non-doctrinal aspects of the Latin view of purgatory). The Eastern Catholic churches and the Latin church (which together compose the worldwide Catholic Church) share the same doctrine and sacraments, and thus the same faith.
  • Armenian Catholic Church
    Armenian Catholic Church
    |- |The Armenian Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church sui juris in union with the other Eastern Rite, Oriental Rite and Latin Rite Catholics who accept the Bishop of Rome as spiritual leader of the Church. It is regulated by Eastern canon law...

  • Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
    Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
    The Belarusian Greek Catholic Church , sometimes called, in reference to its Byzantine Rite, the Belarusian Byzantine Catholic Church, is the heir within Belarus of the Union of Brest...

  • Bulgarian Catholic Church
  • Chaldean Catholic Church
    Chaldean Catholic Church
    The Chaldean Catholic Church , is an Eastern Syriac particular church of the Catholic Church, maintaining full communion with the Bishop of Rome and the rest of the Catholic Church...

  • Coptic Catholic Church
    Coptic Catholic Church
    The Coptic Catholic Church is an Alexandrian Rite particular Church in full communion with the Pope of Rome. Historically, Coptic Catholics represent a schism from the Coptic Orthodox Church, leaving that church in order to come into full communion with the Bishop of Rome.The current Coptic...

  • Croatian Greek Catholic Church
  • Ethiopian Catholic Church
    Ethiopian Catholic Church
    The Ethiopian Catholic Church is a Metropolitan sui iuris Eastern particular Church within the Catholic Church. Established in 1930, its membership includes inhabitants of Ethiopia and Eritrea....

  • Georgian Catholic Church
    Georgian Catholic Church
    The Georgian Catholic Church , since the 11th century East-West Schism, has been composed mainly of Latin Rite Catholics; Georgian Catholic communities of the Armenian Rite have existed in the country since the 18th century....

  • Greek Catholic Church
    Greek Catholic Church
    The Greek Catholic Church consists of the Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine liturgical tradition and are thus in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, the Pope.-List of Greek Catholic Churches:...

  • Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
    Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
    The Hungarian Greek Catholic Church is a Byzantine Rite sui juris particular Church in full union with the Catholic Church that uses Hungarian in the liturgy.-History:...

  • Italo-Greek Catholic Church
    Italo-Greek Catholic Church
    The Italo-Greek Catholic Church is one of the 22 Eastern Catholic Churches which, together with the Latin Church, comprise the Catholic Church...

  • Macedonian Catholic Church
    Macedonian Greek Catholic Church
    The Macedonian Catholic Church, called the Macedonian Byzantine Catholic Church, is a Byzantine Rite sui juris Eastern Catholic Church in full union with the Roman Catholic Church which uses the Macedonian language in the liturgy.- History :...

  • Maronite Catholic Church
  • Melkite Catholic Church
  • Romanian Catholic Church
  • Russian Catholic Church
    Russian Catholic Church
    The Russian Catholic Church is a Byzantine Rite church sui juris in full union with the Catholic Church. Historically it represents a schism from the Russian Orthodox Church. It is now in full communion with and subject to the authority of the Pope as defined by Eastern canon law...

  • Ruthenian Catholic Church
    Ruthenian Catholic Church
    The Ruthenian Catholic Church is a sui iuris Eastern Catholic Church , which uses the Divine Liturgy of the Constantinopolitan Byzantine Eastern Rite. Its roots are among the Rusyns who lived in the region called Carpathian Ruthenia, in and around the Carpathian Mountains...

     (usually called the "Byzantine Catholic Church" in the United States)
  • Slovak Greek Catholic Church
    Slovak Greek Catholic Church
    The Slovak Greek Catholic Church, or Slovak Byzantine Catholic Church, is a Byzantine Rite particular Church in full union with the Roman Catholic Church. L'Osservatore Romano of January 31, 2008 reported that, in Slovakia alone, it had some 350,000 faithful, 374 priests and 254 parishes...

  • Syrian Catholic Church
  • Syro-Malabar Church
  • Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
    Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
    The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See...

  • Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
    Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
    The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , Ukrainska Hreko-Katolytska Tserkva), is the largest Eastern Rite Catholic sui juris particular church in full communion with the Holy See, and is directly subject to the Pope...

The Catholic Church considers itself the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church
One true faith
The concept of a one true faith, one true religion, or one true church, stem from the concept of the One True God asserted by believers in a monotheistic view of God...

 that Christ
Christ
Christ is the English term for the Greek meaning "the anointed one". It is a translation of the Hebrew , usually transliterated into English as Messiah or Mashiach...

 founded. As such, the Catholic Church does not consider itself a denomination, but as pre-denominational, the original Church of Christ.

Independent (self-identified as Catholic)


  • Apostolic Catholic Church
    Apostolic Catholic Church
    The Apostolic Catholic Church is a self-governing church that claims to trace its faith and worship from the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church that Jesus Christ and his Apostles established. The church believes the Trinitarian Doctrine that states that the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit...

  • American Catholic Church in the United States
    American Catholic Church in the United States
    The American Catholic Church in the United States is a small Independent Catholic formed in 1999, denomination originating from the Old Catholic Christian denomination. The ACCUS holds some similar theological beliefs and practices to the Roman Catholic Church. It is not in communion with the...

  • Bosnian Church
    Bosnian Church
    The Bosnian Church is historically thought to be an indigenous branch of the Bogomils that existed in Bosnia during the Middle Ages. Adherents of the church called themselves simply Krstjani...

     (no longer in existence)
  • Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church
    Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church
    The Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church is an independent Catholic church established in 1945 by Brazilian bishop Dom Carlos Duarte Costa, a former Roman Catholic Bishop of Botucatu.The ICAB has 58 dioceses and claims five million members in 17 countries...

  • Catholic Charismatic Church of Canada
    Catholic Charismatic Church of Canada
    The Catholic Charismatic Rite traces their heritage and apostolic succession through the Old Catholic Church, which cut communion with Rome in 1870 . They are also a part of the Charismatic movement which is open to the movement of the Holy Spirit in one's life. This is not to be confused with...

  • Celtic Catholic Church
    Celtic Catholic Church
    The Celtic Catholic Church is a church in the United States. It claims Apostolic Succession from the Archbishop of Canterbury William Sancroft's associates, the non-jurors, specifically those who fled to Wales in the 17th century...

  • Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association
    Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association
    The Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association , abbreviated CPA, CPCA, or CCPA, is an association of people, established in 1957 by the People's Republic of China's Religious Affairs Bureau to exercise state supervision over mainland China's Catholics...

  • Communion of Christ the Redeemer
    Communion of Christ the Redeemer
    The Communion of Christ the Redeemer is an Christian denomination that embodies Convergence worship and ministry and Anglican traditions. The church describes itself as Bible-believing, Spirit-filled, and liturgical/sacramental...

  • Free Catholic Church
    Free Catholic Church
    The Free Catholic Church is a German derivative movement of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church.-Church background:In 1937 the Roman Catholic bishop Carlos Duarte Costa - and his diocese of Botucatu, Brazil - severed ties with the Vatican. The bishop was excommunicated in 1945 after he accused...

  • Liberal Catholic Church
    Liberal Catholic Church
    The Liberal Catholic Church is a form of Christianity open to theosophical ideas and even reincarnation. It is not connected to the Roman Catholic Church, which considers it heretical and schismatic...

  • Mariavite Church
    Mariavite Church
    The Mariavite Church is an independent Christian church that emerged from the Catholic Church of Poland at the turn of the 20th century. Initially, it was an internal movement leading to a reform of the Polish clergy. After a conflict with Polish bishops, it became a separate and independent...

  • Old Catholic Church
    Old Catholic Church
    The term Old Catholic Church is commonly used to describe a number of Ultrajectine Christian churches that originated with groups that split from the Roman Catholic Church over certain doctrines, most importantly that of Papal Infallibility...

  • Old Catholic Church of America
    Old Catholic Church of America
    The Old Catholic Church of America is an autocephalous Old Catholic Church, founded in the United States of America in 1925 by Bishop Paul Francis Cope...

  • Old Catholic Church in Europe
    Old Catholic Church in Europe
    The Old Catholic Church in Europe or OCCE is a traditionalist Church in the Old Roman Catholic tradition, based in the United Kingdom. The denomination is also known as the "Old Roman Catholic Church in Europe"....

  • Palmarian Catholic Church
    Palmarian Catholic Church
    The Christian Palmarian Church of the Carmelites of the Holy Face , commonly called the Palmarian Catholic Church , is a schismatic Catholic church with its own pope, Gregory XVIII.-Origins:...

  • Philippine Independent Church
    Philippine Independent Church
    The Philippine Independent Church, The Philippine Independent Church, The Philippine Independent Church, (officially the or the IFI, also known as the Philippine Independent Catholic Church or in Ilocano: Siwawayawaya nga Simbaan ti Filipinas (in in Kinaray-a/Hiligaynon: Simbahan Hilway nga...

  • Polish National Catholic Church
    Polish National Catholic Church
    The Polish National Catholic Church is a Christian church founded and based in the United States by Polish-Americans who were Roman Catholic. The PNCC is a breakaway Catholic Church in dialogue with the Catholic Church; it seeks full communion with the Holy See although it differs theologically...

  • Spiritus Christi
  • True Catholic Church

Eastern Orthodoxy


List provided in order of precedence. Indentation indicates autonomy
Autonomy
Autonomy is a concept found in moral, political and bioethical philosophy. Within these contexts, it is the capacity of a rational individual to make an informed, un-coerced decision...

 rather than autocephaly
Autocephaly
Autocephaly , in hierarchical Christian churches and especially Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, is the status of a hierarchical church whose head bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop...

.

Eastern Orthodox Church



  • Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
    Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
    The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople , part of the wider Orthodox Church, is one of the fourteen autocephalous churches within the communion of Orthodox Christianity...
    • Finnish Orthodox Church
      Finnish Orthodox Church
      The Finnish Orthodox Church is an autonomous Orthodox archdiocese of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The Church has a legal position as a national church in the country, along with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland....

    • Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church (autonomy not universally recognized)
    • Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe
      Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe
      The Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe is an exarchate of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Russian Orthodox tradition, based in Paris, and having parishes throughout Europe, mainly in France. The Exarchate is sometimes known as Rue Daru from the street...

       (autonomy not universally recognized)
  • Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria
    Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria
    The Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria, also known as the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa is an autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church within the wider communion of Orthodox Christianity.Officially, it is called the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria to distinguish it from the...

  • Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch
    • Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
      Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
      The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America is the sole jurisdiction of the Antiochian Orthodox Church in the United States and Canada with exclusive jurisdiction over the Antiochian Orthodox faithful in those countries, though these faithful were originally cared for by the...

  • Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem
    • Saint Catherine's Monastery
      Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
      Saint Catherine's Monastery lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in the city of Saint Catherine in Egypt's South Sinai Governorate. The monastery is Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site...

       (considered autocephalous by some)
  • Russian Orthodox Church
    Russian Orthodox Church
    The Russian Orthodox Church or, alternatively, the Moscow Patriarchate The ROC is often said to be the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches in the world; including all the autocephalous churches under its umbrella, its adherents number over 150 million worldwide—about half of the 300 million...
    • Latvian Orthodox Church
      Latvian Orthodox Church
      The Latvian Orthodox Church is a self-governing Eastern Orthodox Church under the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Moscow. The primate of the church carries the title of Metropolitan of Riga and all Latvia...

       (semi-autonomous)
    • Moldovan Orthodox Church
      Moldovan Orthodox Church
      The Moldovan Orthodox Church is an autonomous church under the Russian Orthodox Church, whose canonic territory covers the Republic of Moldova....

       (autonomy not universally recognized)
    • Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
      Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
      The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is an autonomous Church of Eastern Orthodoxy in Ukraine, under the ecclesiastic jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate...

    • Japanese Orthodox Church
      Japanese Orthodox Church
      The Japanese Orthodox Church or The Orthodox Church in Japan is an autonomous church of Eastern Orthodoxy under the omophorion of the Russian Orthodox Church.-History:...

      (autonomy not universally recognized)
    • Chinese Orthodox Church
      Chinese Orthodox Church
      The Chinese Autonomous Orthodox Church is an autonomous Eastern Orthodox church in China. It was granted autonomy by its mother church, the Russian Orthodox Church in the mid-1950s.-Ancient Period:...

    • Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
      Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
      The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia , also called the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, ROCA, or ROCOR) is a semi-autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church....

       (semi-autonomous; not universally recognized)
    • Estonian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate
      Estonian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate
      The Estonian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate is a semi-autonomous diocese of the Patriarchate of Moscow whose primate is appointed by the Holy Synod of the latter. Its official name in English is the Estonian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate...

       (semi-autonomous; not universally recognized)
  • Serbian Orthodox Church
    Serbian Orthodox Church
    The Serbian Orthodox Church is one of the autocephalous Orthodox Christian churches, ranking sixth in order of seniority after Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, and Russia...
    • Macedonian Orthodox Church
      Macedonian Orthodox Church
      The Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archbishopric or just Macedonian Orthodox Church is the body of Christians who are united under the Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia, exercising jurisdiction over Macedonian Orthodox Christians in the Republic of Macedonia and in exarchates in the Macedonian...

       (autonomy not universally recognized)
    • Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric
      Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric
      The Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric is an autonomous Eastern Orthodox archdiocese in the Republic of Macedonia...

  • Romanian Orthodox Church
    Romanian Orthodox Church
    The Romanian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church. It is in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox churches, and is ranked seventh in order of precedence. The Primate of the church has the title of Patriarch...
    • Metropolis of Bessarabia
      Metropolis of Bessarabia
      The Metropolis of Bessarabia is an autonomous Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan bishopric of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The Metropolis of Bessarabia was created in 1923 and organized in 1925, when the Archbishopric of Chișinău was raised to the rank of metropolis...

  • Bulgarian Orthodox Church
    Bulgarian Orthodox Church
    The Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Bulgarian Patriarchate is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church with some 6.5 million members in the Republic of Bulgaria and between 1.5 and 2.0 million members in a number of European countries, the Americas and Australia...

  • Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church
    Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church
    The Georgian Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church is an autocephalous part of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Since the 4th century AD, Georgian Orthodoxy has been the state religion of Georgia, and it remains the country's largest religious institution....

  • Cypriot Orthodox Church
    Cypriot Orthodox Church
    The Church of Cyprus is an autocephalous Greek church within the communion of Orthodox Christianity. It is one of the oldest Eastern Orthodox autocephalous churches, achieving independence from the Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East in 431...

  • Church of Greece
    Church of Greece
    The Church of Greece , part of the wider Greek Orthodox Church, is one of the autocephalous churches which make up the communion of Orthodox Christianity...

  • Polish Orthodox Church
    Polish Orthodox Church
    The Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church, commonly known as the Polish Orthodox Church, , is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches in full communion...

  • Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania
    Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania
    The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania is one of the newest autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches. It declared its autocephaly in 1922, and gained recognition from the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1937....

     (Albanian Orthodox Church
    Albanian Orthodox Church
    The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania is one of the newest autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches. It declared its autocephaly in 1922, and gained recognition from the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1937....

    )
  • Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church
    Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church
    The Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia is a self-governing body of the Eastern Orthodox Church that territorially covers the countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia...

  • Orthodox Church in America
    Orthodox Church in America
    The Orthodox Church in America is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in North America. Its primate is Metropolitan Jonah , who was elected on November 12, 2008, and was formally installed on December 28, 2008...

     (autocephaly not universally recognized)


The Eastern Orthodox Church considers itself to be the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church that Christ founded.

Other churches


Some Orthodox Churches with not universally recognized autocephaly by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople:
  • Greek Old Calendarists
    Greek Old Calendarists
    Greek Old Calendarists are groups that separated from the Orthodox Church of Greece or from the Patriarchate of Constantinople, precipitated by disagreement over the abandonment of the traditional Julian Calendar.- History :Up until the early 20th century, the Eastern Orthodox Church used the...

  • Montenegrin Orthodox Church
    Montenegrin Orthodox Church
    The Montenegrin Orthodox Church is an Orthodox Christian organization acting in Montenegro and Montenegrin emigration circles - e.g. the village of Lovćenac and the Montenegrin emigration colony in Argentina...

  • Macedonian Orthodox Church
    Macedonian Orthodox Church
    The Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archbishopric or just Macedonian Orthodox Church is the body of Christians who are united under the Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia, exercising jurisdiction over Macedonian Orthodox Christians in the Republic of Macedonia and in exarchates in the Macedonian...

  • Russian Old Believers
    Old Believers
    In the context of Russian Orthodox church history, the Old Believers separated after 1666 from the official Russian Orthodox Church as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon between 1652–66...

  • Orthodox-Catholic Church of America (OCCA)
    Orthodox-Catholic Church of America (OCCA)
    The Orthodox-Catholic Church of America is an independent and self-governing Orthodox jurisdiction based in the United States but also with clergy in Mexico and Australia....

  • Ukrainian Orthodox Church:
    • Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
      Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
      The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church is one of the three major Orthodox Churches in Ukraine. Close to ten percent of the Christian population claim to be members of the UAOC. The other Churches are the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kiev Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Russophile Orthodox...

    • Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kiev Patriarchy)

Oriental Orthodoxy



Oriental Orthodoxy comprises those Christians who did not accept the Council of Chalcedon
Council of Chalcedon
The Council of Chalcedon was a church council held from 8 October to 1 November, 451 AD, at Chalcedon , on the Asian side of the Bosporus. The council marked a significant turning point in the Christological debates that led to the separation of the church of the Eastern Roman Empire in the 5th...

 (AD 451). Other denominations often erroneously label these churches "Monophysite", however, as the Oriental Orthodox do not adhere to the teachings of Eutyches
Eutyches
Eutyches was a presbyter and archimandrite at Constantinople. He first came to notice in 431 at the First Council of Ephesus, for his vehement opposition to the teachings of Nestorius; his condemnation of Nestorianism as heresy precipitated his being denounced as a heretic...

, they themselves reject this label, preferring the term Miaphysite.
  • Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
    • British Orthodox Church
      British Orthodox Church
      The British Orthodox Church is a small Oriental Orthodox jurisdiction, canonically part of the Coptic Patriarchate of Alexandria. Its mission is to the people of the British Isles, and though it is Orthodox in its faith and practice, it remains British in its ethos...

    • French Coptic Orthodox Church
      French Coptic Orthodox Church
      French Orthodox Church redirects here. For the Chalcedonian body, see Orthodox Church of France.The French Coptic Orthodox Church is an Oriental Orthodox church and an outgrowth of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.-History:...

  • Syriac Orthodox Church
    Syriac Orthodox Church
    The Syriac Orthodox Church; is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church based in the Eastern Mediterranean, with members spread throughout the world. The Syriac Orthodox Church claims to derive its origin from one of the first Christian communities, established in Antioch by the Apostle St....
    • Jacobite Syrian Christian Church
      Jacobite Syrian Christian Church
      The Jacobite Syrian Christian Church is part of the Syriac Orthodox Church, located in Kerala, India. It recognizes the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, currently Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, as its supreme head. It functions as a largely autonomous archdiocese within the church, under the authority...

  • Armenian Apostolic Church
    Armenian Apostolic Church
    The Armenian Apostolic Church is the world's oldest National Church, is part of Oriental Orthodoxy, and is one of the most ancient Christian communities. Armenia was the first country to adopt Christianity as its official religion in 301 AD, in establishing this church...
    • Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin
      Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin
      Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin is the spiritual and administrative headquarters of the worldwide Armenian Apostolic Church and the Pontifical Residence of the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians....

    • Holy See of Cilicia
    • Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem
      Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem
      The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem also known as the Armenian Patriarchate of St. James is located in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem. The Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem remains under the authority of the Catholicos of Armenia and of all Armenians of the Armenian Apostolic Church...

    • Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople
      Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople
      The Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople , one of the smallest Patriarchates of the Oriental Orthodox Church but one that has exerted a very significant political role and today still exercises a spiritual authority....

  • Church of Caucasian Albania
    Church of Caucasian Albania
    The Albanian Apostolic Church or the Church of Caucasian Albania was an ancient autocephalous church under the religious jurisdiction of the Armenian Apostolic Church that existed from the fifth century to 1830 and was centered in Caucasian Albania, a region mostly located in present day Azerbaijan...

     (extinct)
  • Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
    Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
    The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is the predominant Oriental Orthodox Christian church in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Church was administratively part of the Coptic Orthodox Church until 1959, when it was granted its own Patriarch by Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All...

  • Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
  • Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church

  • The Antiochian Catholic Church in America
    Antiochian Catholic Church in America
    The Antiochian Catholic Church in America is one of the Independent Catholic Churches. The ACCA is distinct from most of these churches in that it largely embraces the theology and much of the practice of the Syriac Orthodox Church and the Indian Orthodox Church, from which the clergy of the...

     is theologically aligned with the Oriental Orthodox, but is not in full communion with them, primarily because it ordains women and does not impose celibacy on its bishops.
  • Celtic Orthodox Church
    Celtic Orthodox Church
    The Celtic Orthodox Church is an indigenous, Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Europe with representation in the United Kingdom since 1998. The head of the Church carries the title of Metropolitan of Dol and titular Bishop of Iona, with residence in Saint-Dolay The Celtic Orthodox Church is an...

  • Sassanid Church (no longer in existence)
  • Malabar Independent Syrian Church
    Malabar Independent Syrian Church
    The Malabar Independent Syrian Church, also known as the Thozhiyur Sabah , is a Christian church centred in Kerala, India. It is one of the churches of the Saint Thomas Christian community, which traces its origins to the evangelical activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century.Considered part...



The Oriental Orthodox Church considers itself to be the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church that Christ founded.

Church of the East


The Church of the East is said to have been formed by St Thomas. The Church did not attend the Council of Ephesus (AD 431). It is incorrectly referred to as the Nestorian Church; Assyrian Christians do not consider themselves Nestorians, and recent Christological agreements with the Catholic and some of the Orthodox churches have resolved this debate permanently, clearing the way for ecumenical relations.
  • Church of the East
    Church of the East
    The Church of the East tāʾ d-Maḏnḥāʾ), also known as the Nestorian Church, is a Christian church, part of the Syriac tradition of Eastern Christianity. Originally the church of the Persian Sassanid Empire, it quickly spread widely through Asia...

     (historical church)
    • Assyrian Church of the East
      Assyrian Church of the East
      The Assyrian Church of the East, officially the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East ʻIttā Qaddishtā w-Shlikhāitā Qattoliqi d-Madnĕkhā d-Āturāyē), is a Syriac Church historically centered in Mesopotamia. It is one of the churches that claim continuity with the historical...

       (successor church)
    • Ancient Church of the East
      Ancient Church of the East
      The Ancient Church of the East was established in 1968. It follows the traditions of one of the oldest Christian churches, the Church of the East, whose origins trace back to the See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon in central Mesopotamia...

       (successor church)


The Church of the East considers itself to be the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church that Christ founded.

Protestantism


These are the churches "which repudiated the papal authority, and separated or were severed from the Roman communion in the Reformation of the 16th cent., and of any of the bodies of Christians descended from them."



Pre-Lutheran Protestants

  • Hussites
    • Moravian Church
    • Unity of the Brethren
      Unity of the Brethren
      The Unity of the Brethren is a Christian denomination whose roots are in the pre-reformation work of priest and philosopher Jan Hus, who was martyred in 1415.-History in Bohemia:...

    • Utraquists
  • Waldensians
    Waldensians
    Waldensians, Waldenses or Vaudois are names for a Christian movement of the later Middle Ages, descendants of which still exist in various regions, primarily in North-Western Italy. There is considerable uncertainty about the earlier history of the Waldenses because of a lack of extant source...

Lutheranism


  • Apostolic Lutheran Church of America
    Apostolic Lutheran Church of America
    The Apostolic Lutheran Church of America is a Lutheran church established by Finnish-Americans in the early 20th century.The Finns came principally from northern Norway and were identified under the State Church. However, there were a number belonging to a party founded by Provost Lars Levi...

  • Association of Free Lutheran Congregations
    Association of Free Lutheran Congregations
    Association of Free Lutheran Congregations is the fifth largest Lutheran church body in the United States. The AFLC includes congregations in 27 different states, as well as four Canadian provinces. The AFLC is not an incorporated synod, but a free association. Each local congregation is a separate...

  • Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America
    Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America
    The Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America is a Lutheran denomination of Christians rooted in a spiritual awakening at the turn of the 20th century. A spiritual revival swept through a large part of the Midwestern United States in the 1890s. Lutherans who were influenced by this fervor...

  • Church of the Lutheran Confession
    Church of the Lutheran Confession
    The Church of the Lutheran Confession is a conservative Christian religious body theologically adhering to confessional Lutheran doctrine. Founded in 1960 in Minnesota, it has approximately 75 congregations in 24 U.S...

  • Concordia Lutheran Conference
    Concordia Lutheran Conference
    The Concordia Lutheran Conference is a small organization of Lutheran churches in the United States which formed in 1957. It was a reorganization of some of the churches of the Orthodox Lutheran Conference, which had been formed in September, 1951 in Okabena, Minnesota following a break with...

  • Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference
    Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference
    The Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference is the successor to the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America except that it is international in scope rather than restricted to North America....
    • Evangelical Lutheran Church "Concord" (Russia)
    • Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (Germany)
      Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (Germany)
      The Evangelical Lutheran Free Church is a small confessional Lutheran denomination based in Germany and western Austria. It currently consists of 1,470 members in 15 congregations, primarily located in former East Germany...

    • Evangelical Lutheran Synod
      Evangelical Lutheran Synod
      The Evangelical Lutheran Synod or ELS is a US-based Protestant Christian denomination based in Mankato, Minnesota, USA. It describes itself as a conservative, Confessional Lutheran body.-Membership:...

       (United States)
    • Lutheran Church of Central Africa Malawi Conference
    • Lutheran Church of Central Africa Zambia Conference
    • Ukrainian Lutheran Church
      Ukrainian Lutheran Church
      The Ukrainian Lutheran Church or ULC is a Christian denomination of the Lutheran tradition based in the eastern European country of Ukraine...

    • Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
      Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
      The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod is a North American Confessional Lutheran denomination of Christianity. Characterized as theologically conservative, it was founded in 1850 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As of 2008, it had a baptized membership of over 389,364 in more than 1,290 congregations,...

       (United States)
  • Evangelical Catholic Church
    Evangelical Catholic Church
    The Evangelical Catholic Church is an Independent Catholic Church which is theologically Lutheran, embracing the Augsburg Confession . Its membership numbers under 500. It was incorporated in Arizona in 1976. It practices infant communion....

  • Evangelical Community Church-Lutheran
  • Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America
    Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America
    The Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America is a confessional Lutheran church body in the United States. The ELDoNA was founded June 6, 2006 at a meeting held at Salem Lutheran Church, Malone, Texas. A second diocesan synod was held August 28 and 29, 2007. The was held at Christ Lutheran...

  • International Lutheran Council
    International Lutheran Council
    The International Lutheran Council is a worldwide association of confessional Lutheran denominations. It is to be distinguished from the larger Lutheran World Federation, which is an association of the more theologically moderate to liberal Lutheran churches, all of which are in full communion with...
    • American Association of Lutheran Churches
      American Association of Lutheran Churches
      The American Association of Lutheran Churches was formed on November 7, 1987 as an alternative choice for churches in The American Lutheran Church denomination who did not want to be part of the merger with two other Lutheran church bodies, Lutheran Church in America , & American Evangelical...

    • Evangelical Lutheran Church - Synod of France and Belgium
      Evangelical Lutheran Church - Synod of France and Belgium
      The Evangelical Lutheran Church - Synod of France, or ELC-SF is a confessional Lutheran church body in France. Around a dozen parishes belong to ELC-SF. Their locations are listed below.The ELC-SFB has been a member of the European Lutheran Conference...

    • Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil
      Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil
      The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil, or Igreja Evangélica Luterana do Brasil , was founded in 1904 in Rio Grande do Sul, a southern state in Brazil. The IELB is a conservative, confessional Lutheran Synod that holds the Book of Concord. It started as a mission of the Lutheran Church -...

    • Evangelical Lutheran Church of England
      Evangelical Lutheran Church of England
      The Evangelical Lutheran Church of England is a confessional Lutheran synod in the United Kingdom. It has congregations in England, Wales and Scotland....

    • Gutnius Lutheran Church
      Gutnius Lutheran Church
      The Gutnius Lutheran Church, formerly the Wabag Lutheran Church, is a Lutheran body existing in Papua New Guinea. It was established by the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod in 1948 shortly after the Australian administration of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea permitted missionary activity to...

    • Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church
      Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church
      The Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church is a confessional Lutheran church body of Germany. It is a member of the European Lutheran Conference and a member of the International Lutheran Council . The SELK synod has about 36,000 members in 200 congregations...

    • Japan Lutheran Church
      Japan Lutheran Church
      The or NRK is a Confessional Lutheran denomination in Japan. It currently has approximately 2,645 baptized members in 35 congregations nationwide.The current president of the NRK is the Rev...

    • Lanka Lutheran Church
      Lanka Lutheran Church
      The Lanka Lutheran Church is a Lutheran body that exists in Sri Lanka. It is a denomination of around 5000 members, in fellowship with the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod since 2001. As a full member of the Lutheran World Federation, it is also in full communion with all other Lutheran World...

    • Lutheran Church—Canada
    • Lutheran Church—Hong Kong Synod
      Lutheran Church—Hong Kong Synod
      The Lutheran Church—Hong Kong Synod is a confessional Lutheran church body in Hong Kong. The LCHKS is has nearly 40 congregations. The LCHKS grew from the China mission of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod , which was established in the early 1900's...

    • Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (United States)
    • Lutheran Church of Australia
      Lutheran Church of Australia
      The Lutheran Church of Australia is the major Lutheran denomination in Australia, it also has a presence in New Zealand. It has 320 parishes, 540 congregations, 70,000 baptized members in Australia, 1,130 baptized members in New Zealand, 52,463 communicant members and 450 active pastors. Its...

       (associate member)
  • German Evangelical Church in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia
    German Evangelical Church in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia
    German Evangelical Church in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia was an independent church body which existed in Czechoslovakia from 1919 until 1945....

     (no longer in existence)
  • Laestadian Lutheran Church
    Laestadian Lutheran Church
    The Laestadian Lutheran Church is a religious Christian movement, its teachings based on the Bible and the Lutheran Confessions. From June 9, 1973, the organisation was name the Association of American Laestadian Congregations , before the association changed its name in 1994 in order better to...

  • Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
    Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
    The Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is a Lutheran denomination, formed in 1957 as a federation, and reorganized in 1975 as a formal denomination. As of 2007, 12,000 congregants and 68 congregations of the church were present in the United States. It is headquartered in Milwaukee,...

  • Lutheran Church of China
    Lutheran Church of China
    The Lutheran Church of China or LCC was a Lutheran church body in China from 1920 to 1951. It was established as a result of the consultations between the various Lutheran missionary bodies in China that was initiated during the China Centenary Missionary Conference held in Shanghai in 1907...

     (no longer in existence)
  • Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ
    Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ
    Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ is an association of Lutheran congregations in the United States. It began in 2000 in response to the liberalization of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America . LCMC is characterized by the traditional stances it takes on Lutheran polity, biblical...

     (United States)
  • Lutheran Evangelical Protestant Church
    The Lutheran Evangelical Protestant Church
    The Lutheran Evangelical Protestant Church is a mainline Protestant denomination also known by its non profit corporation name the Evangelical Protestant Church .The earliest Lutherans in America came from Dutch, Swedish and German stock...

     (United States)
  • Lutheran Ministerium and Synod - USA
    Lutheran Ministerium and Synod - USA
    The Lutheran Ministerium and Synod - USA is a small Lutheran Christian denomination based in the United States. Its congregations are mostly located in the Upper Midwest, and the church body maintains its official headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana.Founded in 1995, the LMS-USA is governed by...

  • Lutheran World Federation
    Lutheran World Federation
    The Lutheran World Federation is a global communion of national and regional Lutheran churches headquartered in the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland. The federation was founded in the Swedish city of Lund in the aftermath of the Second World War in 1947 to coordinate the activities of the...
    • Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church
      Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church
      Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church was constituted in the year 1927 in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is the Indian successor to the United Lutheran Church in America which was started as a self-supporting, self-governing, and self-propagating church among Telugu Christians.-Memberships:* Andhra...

    • Arcot Lutheran Church
      Arcot Lutheran Church
      Arcot Lutheran Church is a Christian denomination in India. It has about 40,000 members. It belongs to National Council of Churches in India, United Evangelical Lutheran Church in India, Lutheran World Federation and World Council of Churches....

    • Batak Christian Protestant Church
      Batak Christian Protestant Church
      The Huria Kristen Batak Protestan , which translates into the Batak Christian Protestant Church, is the largest Protestant denomination in Indonesia, with a baptized membership of 4,178,256. Its present leader is the Ephorus Rev. Dr...

    • Church of Denmark
      Church of Denmark
      The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark, Church of Denmark or Danish National Church, is the state church and largest denomination in Denmark and Greenland...

    • Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
      Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
      The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland is the national church of Finland. The church professes the Lutheran branch of Christianity, and is a member of the Porvoo Communion....

    • Church of Iceland
      Church of Iceland
      The National Church of Iceland, or Þjóðkirkjan, formally called the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland, is the state church in Iceland. Like the established churches in the other Nordic countries, the National Church of Iceland professes the Lutheran branch of Christianity. Its head is the...

    • Church of Norway
      Church of Norway
      The Church of Norway is the state church of Norway, established after the Lutheran reformation in Denmark-Norway in 1536-1537 broke the ties to the Holy See. The church confesses the Lutheran Christian faith...

    • Church of Sweden
      Church of Sweden
      The Church of Sweden is the largest Christian church in Sweden. The church professes the Lutheran faith and is a member of the Porvoo Communion. With 6,589,769 baptized members, it is the largest Lutheran church in the world, although combined, there are more Lutherans in the member churches of...

    • Church of the Faroe Islands
      Church of the Faroe Islands
      The Church of the Faroe Islands was a diocese of the Lutheran Church of Denmark until it became independent on 29 July 2007, as the smallest of the world's few remaining state churches....

    • Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church
      Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church
      The Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Estonia. EELC is member of the Lutheran World Federation...

    • Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia
      Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia
      The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia is a Lutheran church body in Slovakia.-History of the church:...

    • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
      Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
      The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is a mainline Protestant denomination headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA officially came into existence on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three churches. As of December 31, 2009, it had 4,543,037 baptized members, with 2,527,941 of them...

    • Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
      Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
      The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada is Canada's largest Lutheran denomination, with 152,788 baptized members in 624 congregations, with the second largest, the Lutheran Church–Canada, having 72,116 baptized members...

    • Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea
      Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea
      The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea is a Protestant church denomination located in Papua New Guinea that professes the Lutheran branch of the Christian faith...

    • Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa
      Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa
      The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa is a Lutheran church in South Africa. The Church has 580,000 baptized members. in seven Dioceses in South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland. It became a member of the Lutheran World Federation in 1976 after it was formed out of four previous Synods in...

    • Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
      Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
      The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland is the national church of Finland. The church professes the Lutheran branch of Christianity, and is a member of the Porvoo Communion....

    • Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia
      Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia
      The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia is a Lutheran Protestant church in Latvia. Latvia's Lutheran heritage dates back to the Reformation. Both the Nazi and communist regimes persecuted the church harshly before religious freedom returned to Latvia in 1988.The Church is governed by a...

    • Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania
      Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania
      The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania is the federation of Lutheran Churches in the African nation of Tanzania. In 1938, seven Lutheran churches founded a federation known as the Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika...

    • Evangelical Lutheran Church in Madhya Pradesh
      Evangelical Lutheran Church in Madhya Pradesh
      Evangelical Lutheran Church in Madhya Pradesh is a Church belonging to the Lutheran denomination in India. It has about 17,000 members. It is affiliated with United Evangelical Lutheran Church in India, National Council of Churches in India, Lutheran World Federation and Christian Conference of...

    • Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Himalayan States
      Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Himalayan States
      Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Himalayan States is a Christian denomination in India. It has about 25,000 members. It belongs to the Lutheran World Federation.Its president is Godwin Nag....

    • Evangelical Lutheran Free Church of Norway
      Evangelical Lutheran Free Church of Norway
      The Evangelical Lutheran Free Church, or the Free Church as it is commonly known, is a nationwide Lutheran church in Norway consisting of 81 congregations and 21,817 baptized members. It was founded in 1877 in Moss. It should not be confused with the Church of Norway, though both churches are...

       (associate member)
    • Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chotanagpur and Assam
      Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chotanagpur and Assam
      Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chotanagpur and Assam is a major Christian denomination in India. It has hundreds of thousands of members. It has been established in 1919...

    • Indian Evangelical Lutheran Church
      Indian Evangelical Lutheran Church
      Indian Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Christian denomination in India. It has about 80,000 members.It is a member of the World Council of Churches, Christian Conference of Asia, the National Council of Churches in India and Lutheran World Federation Council of Churches in India NagpurIt is a...

    • Jeypore Evangelical Lutheran Church
      Jeypore Evangelical Lutheran Church
      Jeypore Evangelical Lutheran Church is a major Christian denomination in India. It has more thanm 150,000 members. It belongs to National Council of Churches in India, United Evangelical Lutheran Church in India, Lutheran World Federation and World Council of Churches.It is led by Bishop Chandra...

    • Lutheran Church of Australia
      Lutheran Church of Australia
      The Lutheran Church of Australia is the major Lutheran denomination in Australia, it also has a presence in New Zealand. It has 320 parishes, 540 congregations, 70,000 baptized members in Australia, 1,130 baptized members in New Zealand, 52,463 communicant members and 450 active pastors. Its...

       (associate member)
    • Malagasy Lutheran Church
      Malagasy Lutheran Church
      The Malagasy Lutheran Church is a Christian denomination in Madagascar and France, established in 1950 by the unification of 1,800 Lutheran congregations in central and southern Madagascar...

    • Northern Evangelical Lutheran Church
      Northern Evangelical Lutheran Church
      Northern Evangelical Lutheran Church is a multi-lingual Lutheran Christian church that is centred mainly in three states of North India - Bihar, Assam and Bengal. The reach of the Church extends into Nepal and the NELC also works in Bhutan....

    • Simalungun Protestant Christian Church
    • South Andhra Lutheran Church
      South Andhra Lutheran Church
      South Andhra Lutheran Church is a Christian denomination in India. It is Telugu-speaking.It is led by Bishop K.S. Chandra Sekhar. It has tens of thousands of members...

    • Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church
      Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church
      Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Christian denomination in south India. It has been established in 1919.Its headquarters is in Tamil Nadu. It has about 100,000 members.. The bishops has the title "Bishop of Tranquebar". It belongs to the Lutheran World Federation...

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    Anglican Communion


    Anglicanism
    Anglicanism
    Anglicanism is a tradition within Christianity comprising churches with historical connections to the Church of England or similar beliefs, worship and church structures. The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the English...

     has referred to itself as the via media between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. It considers itself to be both Catholic
    Catholic
    The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...

     and Reformed. Although the use of the term "Protestant" to refer to Anglicans was once common, it is controversial today, with some rejecting the label and others accepting it.
    • Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
      Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
      The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia is a church of the Anglican Communion serving New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and the Cook Islands...

    • Anglican Church in Central America
      Anglican Church in Central America
      The Anglican Church in Central America is a province of the Anglican Communion, covering 5 sees in Central America. The Bishop of Guatemala, the Rt. Rev...

    • Anglican Church of Australia
      Anglican Church of Australia
      The Anglican Church of Australia is a member church of the Anglican Communion. It was previously officially known as the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania...

    • Anglican Church of Burundi
      Anglican Church of Burundi
      The Anglican Church of Burundi is a member Church in the Anglican Communion, located in East Africa between Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, and the Congo...

    • Anglican Church of Canada
      Anglican Church of Canada
      The Anglican Church of Canada is the Province of the Anglican Communion in Canada. The official French name is l'Église Anglicane du Canada. The ACC is the third largest church in Canada after the Roman Catholic Church and the United Church of Canada, consisting of 800,000 registered members...

    • Anglican Church of Kenya
      Anglican Church of Kenya
      The Anglican Church of Kenya is part of the Anglican Communion, and includes 30 dioceses. The Primate of the Church is the Archbishop of Kenya.-Official name:...

    • Anglican Church of Korea
      Anglican Church of Korea
      The Anglican Church of Korea is the province of the Anglican Communion in North and South Korea. Founded in 1889, it has over 120 parish and mission churches with a total membership of roughly 65,000 people.-Birth of the Anglican Church of Korea:...

    • Anglican Church of Mexico
      Anglican Church of Mexico
      The Anglican Church of Mexico is the Anglican province in Mexico, and includes 5 dioceses. The primate is the Presiding Bishop and Bishop of Mexico, The Most Revd...

    • Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea
      Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea
      The Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea became a discrete province of the Anglican Communion when the Anglican Province of Papua New Guinea was separated from the Anglican ecclesiastical Province of Queensland, Australia, in 1976 following Papua New Guinea's independence from Australia in 1975. Its...

    • Anglican Church of Southern Africa
    • Anglican Church of Tanzania
      Anglican Church of Tanzania
      The Anglican Church of Tanzania is a member of the Anglican Communion based in Dodoma. It consists of 26 dioceses headed by their respective bishops. It seceded from the Province of East Africa in 1970, which it shared with Kenya...

    • Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America
    • Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil
    • Church in the Province of the West Indies
      Church in the Province of the West Indies
      The Church in the Province of the West Indies is a member province in the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church comprises eight dioceses spread out over much of the West Indies area. The present position of archbishop and primate of the West Indies is held by The Most Rev. John Holder. The Most...

    • Church in Wales
      Church in Wales
      The Church in Wales is the Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses.As with the primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Archbishop of Wales serves concurrently as one of the six diocesan bishops. The current archbishop is Barry Morgan, the Bishop of Llandaff.In contrast to the...

    • Church of England
      Church of England
      The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...

    • Church of Ireland
      Church of Ireland
      The Church of Ireland is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion. The church operates in all parts of Ireland and is the second largest religious body on the island after the Roman Catholic Church...

    • Church of Nigeria
      Church of Nigeria
      The Church of Nigeria is the Anglican church in Nigeria. It is the second-largest province in the Anglican Communion, as measured by baptized membership, after the Church of England. It gives its current membership as "over 18 million", out of a total Nigerian population of 140 million.Since 2002...

    • Church of Uganda
      Church of Uganda
      The Church of the Province of Uganda is a member church of the Anglican Communion. Currently there are 34 dioceses which make up the Church of Uganda, each headed by a bishop....
    • Church of the Province of Central Africa
      Church of the Province of Central Africa
      The Church of the Province of Central Africa is part of the Anglican Communion, and includes 15 dioceses in Botswana, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The Primate of the Church is the Archbishop of Central Africa; Albert Chama is the current Archbishop, being installed on 20 March 2011, succeeding...

    • Church of the Province of Melanesia
      Church of the Province of Melanesia
      The Church of the Province of Melanesia is part of the Anglican Communion, and includes 8 dioceses. The Primate of the Church is the Archbishop of Melanesia The Most Rev'd David Vunagi.- Official name :...

    • Church of the Province of Myanmar
      Church of the Province of Myanmar
      The Church of the Province of Myanmar in Asia is a member church of the Anglican Communion. The province is bordered by China on the north, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west and India on the northwest, with the Andaman Sea to the south and the Bay of Bengal to the...

    • Church of the Province of Rwanda
      Church of the Province of Rwanda
      The Church of the Province of Rwanda is a province of the Anglican Communion, covering 9 sees in East Africa. The current primate of the province is Archbishop Onesphore Rwaje, consecrated Dec. 12, 2010.-Official names:...

    • Church of the Province of South East Asia
      Church of the Province of South East Asia
      The Church of the Province of South East Asia, a member church of the Anglican Communion, was created in 1996, comprising the four dioceses of Kuching, Sabah, Singapore and West Malaysia...

    • Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean
      Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean
      The Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean is a province of the Anglican Communion. It covers the islands of Madagascar, Mauritius and the Seychelles...

    • Church of the Province of West Africa
      Church of the Province of West Africa
      The Church of the Province of West Africa is a province of the Anglican Communion, covering 15 sees in West Africa, specifically in Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone. The current primate of the province is Archbishop Justice Akrofi.-History:...

    • Episcopal Church
      Episcopal Church (United States)
      The Episcopal Church is a mainline Anglican Christian church found mainly in the United States , but also in Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe...

       (in the United States and elsewhere)
    • Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East
      Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East
      The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East is a province of the Anglican Communion stretching from Iran in the east to Algeria in the west, and Cyprus in the north to Somalia in the south. It is the largest and the most diverse Anglican province. The church is headed by a President...

    • Episcopal Church in the Philippines
      Episcopal Church in the Philippines
      The Episcopal Church in the Philippines is a province of the Anglican Communion first established by the Episcopal Church. It was founded in 1901 by American missionaries led by Charles Henry Brent, who served as the first resident bishop. It became an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion...

    • Episcopal Church of Cuba
    • Episcopal Church of the Sudan
      Episcopal Church of the Sudan
      The Episcopal Church of the Sudan is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion in Sudan and South Sudan. The province consists of twenty-four dioceses, each headed by a bishop. One of the diocesan bishops is elected to serve as Archbishop of the Sudan, and represent the province to the rest...

    • Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui
    • Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church
      Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church
      The Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church is the Anglican church in Portugal. Like all Anglican Communion churches, it recognises the primacy of the Archbishop of Canterbury...

       (in Portugal)
    • Nippon Sei Ko Kai
      Nippon Sei Ko Kai
      The Nippon Sei Ko Kai , abbreviated as NSKK, or the Anglican Church in Japan, is the religious body in the Province of Japan of the Anglican Communion....

       (Japan)
    • Province de L'Eglise Anglicane Du Congo
      Province de L'Eglise Anglicane Du Congo
      The Province de L'Eglise Anglicane Du Congo is a province of the Anglican Communion, stretching over the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It includes eight dioceses . The Most Revd Dr Dirokpa Balufuga Fidele is the current primate and archbishop of the Anglican Province of...

    • Scottish Episcopal Church
      Scottish Episcopal Church
      The Scottish Episcopal Church is a Christian church in Scotland, consisting of seven dioceses. Since the 17th century, it has had an identity distinct from the presbyterian Church of Scotland....

    • Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church
      Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church
      The Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church considers itself to be part of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church established by Christ and his apostles; it maintains apostolic succession via the Church of England and the threefold ministry of bishops, priests and deacons; it keeps the three creeds...


    The Anglican Communion also includes the following united churches
    United and uniting churches
    United and uniting churches are churches formed from the merger or other form of union of two or more different Protestant denominations.Perhaps the oldest example of a united church is found in Germany, where the Evangelical Church in Germany is a federation of Lutheran, United and Reformed...

    :
    • Church of Bangladesh
      Church of Bangladesh
      The Church of Bangladesh is a church of the Anglican Communion in Bangladesh. It is a united church formed by the union of various Christian churches in the region.The Church of Bangladesh came into being as the outcome of the separation from Pakistan...

    • Church of North India
      Church of North India
      The Church of North India , the dominant Protestant denomination in northern India, is a united church established on 29 November 1970 by bringing together the main Protestant churches working in northern India...

    • Church of South India
      Church of South India
      The Church of South India is the successor of the Church of England in India. It came into being in 1947 as a union of Anglican and Protestant churches in South India. With a membership of over 3.8 million, it is India's second largest Christian church after the Roman Catholic Church in India...

    • Church of Pakistan
      Church of Pakistan
      The Church of Pakistan is a united church in Pakistan, which is part of the Anglican Communion and a member church of the World Methodist Council. It was established in 1970 with a union of Anglicans, Scottish Presbyterians , Methodists, and Lutherans. It is the only United Church in the South...



    The Anglican Communion considers itself to be part of the One Holy catholic and Apostolic Church that Christ founded, without the implication that various other churches are not also branches of it.

    Other Anglican Churches


    • African Orthodox Church
      African Orthodox Church
      The African Orthodox Church is a primarily African-American denomination founded in the United States in 1921. It has approximately 15 parishes and 5,000 members, down significantly from the time of its greatest strength....

    • Anglican Catholic Church
      Anglican Catholic Church
      The Anglican Catholic Church is a body of Anglican Christians in the continuing Anglican movement, separate from the Anglican Communion centered on the Archbishop of Canterbury....

    • Anglican Church in America
    • Anglican Church in North America
    • Anglican Church of India
      Anglican Church of India
      The Anglican Church of India is a union of independent Anglican churches in India. When India became independent in 1947, the Church of South India was formed as a united church of Anglicans, Baptists, Basel Mission, Lutherans and Presbyterians...

    • Anglican Episcopal Church
      Anglican Episcopal Church
      The Anglican Episcopal Church is a Continuing Anglican church consisting of parishes in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Florida served by two bishops and 18 other clergy. The AEC was founded at St...

       (USA)
    • Anglican Mission in the Americas
    • Anglican Orthodox Church
      Anglican Orthodox Church
      The Anglican Orthodox Church is one of the older conservative Anglican denominations in the United States that is not in communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury of the Church of England due to the perceived abandonment of Reformation doctrine by that church...

    • Anglican Province of America
      Anglican Province of America
      The Anglican Province of America is one of a number of "Continuing" Anglican churches in the United States. This church considers the Episcopal Church in the USA to be heretical, thus it maintains a church separate from that body in order to follow what it considers to be a truly Christian and...

    • Anglican Province of Christ the King
      Anglican Province of Christ the King
      The Anglican Province of Christ the King is a Continuing Anglican church with traditional forms both of doctrine and liturgy. It is considered one of the more Anglo-Catholic jurisdictions among Continuing Anglican church bodies.-History:...

    • Christian Episcopal Church
      Christian Episcopal Church
      The Christian Episcopal Church is a Continuing Anglican jurisdiction consisting of parishes in Canada and the United States and with oversight of several parishes in the Cayman Islands. Its bishops are in Apostolic Succession through the Right Rev. A. Donald Davies...

    • Church of England (Continuing)
      Church of England (Continuing)
      The Church of England is part of the Continuing Anglican Movement. It was founded in England on 10 February 1994 at a meeting chaired by Dr. David N. Samuel held at St. Mary's, Castle Street, Reading, in reaction to the use of Common Worship and to the ordination of women...

    • Church of England in South Africa
      Church of England in South Africa
      The Church of England in South Africa was constituted in 1938 as a federation of churches. It is an Anglican church but it is not a member of the Anglican Communion. However, it relates closely to the Sydney Diocese of the Anglican Church of Australia, to which it is similar in that it sees itself...

    • Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches
      Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches
      The Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches is an Anglican Christian Communion, formed in 1995 largely as a result of the Convergence Movement...
  • Diocese of the Great Lakes
    Diocese of the Great Lakes
    The Diocese of the Great Lakes is a Continuing Anglican church body in the United States and Canada. Although all of its worship centers and clergy are currently located in the American Great Lakes states and the Canadian Province of Ontario, the diocese is non-geographical in structure and open...

  • Diocese of the Holy Cross
    Diocese of the Holy Cross
    The Diocese of the Holy Cross is a continuing Anglican church body in the United States. Unlike most dioceses it is not geographically defined but is a national jurisdiction.- History :...

  • Episcopal Missionary Church
    Episcopal Missionary Church
    The Episcopal Missionary Church is a Continuing Anglican church body in the United States and a member of the Federation of Anglican Churches in the Americas...

  • Evangelical Connexion of the Free Church of England
    Evangelical Connexion of the Free Church of England
    The Evangelical Connexion of the Free Church of England came into being in 2003. Its first bishops — Bishops Barry Shucksmith and Arthur Bentley-Taylor— had been outspoken in their criticisms of the direction that the FCE was taking regarding ecumenism in particular, and were removed from the body...

  • Free Church of England
    Free Church of England
    The Free Church of England is an Anglican church which separated from the established Church of England in the course of the 19th century. The church was founded by evangelical clergy and congregations in response to the rise of Anglo-Catholicism. The first congregations were formed in 1844...

  • Free Protestant Episcopal Church
    Free Protestant Episcopal Church
    The Free Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States began as an overseas outreach of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church of England. The English group was formed on November 2, 1897 from the merger of three smaller churches; others were to join later...

  • Holy Catholic Church--Western Rite
    Holy Catholic Church--Western Rite
    The Holy Catholic Church—Western Rite is a Continuing Anglican church. It is represented in the United Kingdom, Latin America, the United States of America, South Africa, Canada, New Zealand, Rome and Spain...

  • Independent Anglican Church Canada Synod
    Independent Anglican Church Canada Synod
    The Independent Anglican Church is a Christian denomination in the Anglican tradition with churches in Canada and the United States of America. It is not affiliated with the Anglican Communion headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Most Rev. Peter Wayne Goodrich of Niagara Falls, Ontario,...

  • Orthodox Anglican Church
    Orthodox Anglican Church
    The Orthodox Anglican Church is the American branch of the Orthodox Anglican Communion. It is now considered to be part of the Continuing Anglican movement, although the church predates the Continuing Church movement and was actively opposed to Continuing Anglicanism when it developed during the...

  • Reformed Episcopal Church
    Reformed Episcopal Church
    The Reformed Episcopal Church is an Anglican church in the United States and Canada and a founding member of the Anglican Church in North America...

  • Southern Episcopal Church
    Southern Episcopal Church
    The Southern Episcopal Church was founded in Nashville, Tennessee in 1962 by a physician turned clergyman, the Right Reverend Burnice Hoyle Webster, and a number of former members of the Episcopal Church. Bishop Webster became the SEC's first presiding bishop...

  • United Episcopal Church of North America
    United Episcopal Church of North America
    The United Episcopal Church of North America is a traditional Anglican Christian church that is part of the Continuing Anglican movement...

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    Reformed Churches


    • Canadian and American Reformed Churches
      Canadian and American Reformed Churches
      The Canadian and American Reformed Churches are a federation of over fifty Protestant Christian churches in Canada and the USA, with historical roots in the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands, and doctrinal roots in the sixteenth century Protestant Reformation...

    • Christian Reformed Church in North America
      Christian Reformed Church in North America
      The Christian Reformed Church in North America is a Protestant Christian denomination in the United States and Canada. Having roots in the Dutch Reformed churches of the Netherlands, the Christian Reformed Church was founded by Gijsbert Haan and Dutch immigrants who left the Reformed Church in...

    • Christian Reformed Churches of Australia
      Christian Reformed Churches of Australia
      The Christian Reformed Churches of Australia is a Christian denomination established in Australia belonging to the Reformed/Presbyterian tradition.-Background:...

    • Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches
    • Congregational Federation of Australia
      Congregational Federation of Australia
      The Congregational Federation of Australia is Congregational denomination comprising fourteen congregations in New South Wales and Queensland. It has sixteen ordained ministers and some two thousand members and adherents, many of them Samoans.-History:...

    • Dutch Reformed Church
      Dutch Reformed Church
      The Dutch Reformed Church was a Reformed Christian denomination in the Netherlands. It existed from the 1570s to 2004, the year it merged with the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands to form the Protestant Church in the...

    • Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches
      Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches
      The Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches is a federation of 26 member churches — 24 cantonal churches and two free churches . The SEK-FEPS is not a church in a theological understanding, because every member is independent with their own theological and formal organisation...

    • Free Reformed Churches of North America
      Free Reformed Churches of North America
      The Free Reformed Churches of North America is a theologically conservative federation of churches in the Dutch Calvinist tradition with congregations in the United States and Canada. It officially adopted its current name in 1974...

    • Heritage Reformed Congregations
  • Netherlands Reformed Congregations
    Netherlands Reformed Congregations
    The Netherlands Reformed Congregations, is a highly conservative denomination with congregations mostly in Canada, the United States, and the Netherlands.-Baptism:...

  • Orthodox Christian Reformed Church
    Orthodox Christian Reformed Church
    The Orthodox Christian Reformed Churches were a theologically conservative federation of churches in the Dutch Calvinist tradition. Although the federation has disbanded, most of its churches still exist. They are in the United States and Canada...

  • Protestant Reformed Churches in America
    Protestant Reformed Churches in America
    The Protestant Reformed Churches in America ' or ' is a Protestant denomination of 29 churches and over 7,000 members.-History:...

  • Reformed Church in America
    Reformed Church in America
    The Reformed Church in America is a mainline Reformed Protestant denomination in Canada and the United States. It has about 170,000 members, with the total declining in recent decades. From its beginning in 1628 until 1819, it was the North American branch of the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1819, it...

  • Reformed Church of France
    Reformed Church of France
    The Reformed Church of France is a denomination in France with Calvinist origins. It is the original and largest Protestant denomination in France....

  • Reformed Church in Hungary
    Reformed Church in Hungary
    The Reformed Church in Hungary is a key representative of Christianity in Hungary, being numerically the second-largest denomination in Hungary after the Roman Catholic Church, and the biggest denomination among ethnic Hungarians in Romania...

  • Reformed Church in the United States
    Reformed Church in the United States
    The Reformed Church in the United States is a Protestant Christian denomination in the United States. The present RCUS is a conservative, Calvinist denomination. It affirms the principles of the Reformation: Sola scriptura , Solo Christo , Sola gratia , Sola fide , and Soli Deo gloria...

  • United Reformed Church
    United Reformed Church
    The United Reformed Church is a Christian church in the United Kingdom. It has approximately 68,000 members in 1,500 congregations with some 700 ministers.-Origins and history:...

  • United Reformed Churches in North America
    United Reformed Churches in North America
    The United Reformed Churches in North America is a theologically conservative federation of churches. The United Reformed Churches trace their roots back to the earlier Protestant movements in Europe, and to the Reformed churches in Belgium and the Netherlands...

  • Armenian Reformed Bible Church
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    Presbyterianism



    • Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
      Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
      The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church as it exists today is the remnant of a small denomination, which was formed from the Synod of the South, a division of the Associate Reformed Church...

    • Bible Presbyterian Church
      Bible Presbyterian Church
      The Bible Presbyterian Church is an American Protestant denomination.-History:The Bible Presbyterian Church was formed in 1937, predominantly through the efforts of such conservative Presbyterian clergymen as Carl McIntire, J. Oliver Buswell and Allen A. MacRae. Francis Schaeffer was the first...

    • Christ Community Church
    • Church of Scotland
      Church of Scotland
      The Church of Scotland, known informally by its Scots language name, the Kirk, is a Presbyterian church, decisively shaped by the Scottish Reformation....

    • Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches
    • Cumberland Presbyterian Church
      Cumberland Presbyterian Church
      The Cumberland Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian Christian denomination spawned by the Second Great Awakening. In 2007, it had an active membership of less than 50,000 and about 800 congregations, the majority of which are concentrated in the United States...

    • Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)
    • Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England and Wales
      Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England and Wales
      The Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England and Wales is a reformed and conservative evangelical denomination in England and Wales....

    • Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ukraine
      Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ukraine
      The Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ukraine was recognised as an independent national denomination on April 16, 2008 in Odessa, Ukraine. At of the time of organisation, the denomination comprised one presbytery of three particularised churches and eight mission churches in various parts of...

    • Evangelical Presbyterian Church (Australia)
      Evangelical Presbyterian Church (Australia)
      The Evangelical Presbyterian Church is a small Reformed Christian denomination. In September 2010 it had five centres - Brisbane, Londonderry , Cohuna, Vic...

    • Evangelical Reformed Presbyterian Church
      Evangelical Reformed Presbyterian Church
      The Evangelical Reformed Presbyterian Church is a Christian denomination of the Reformed tradition founded in late 2004. The first member churches were received in 2005...

    • Free Church of Scotland
      Free Church of Scotland (post 1900)
      Free Church of Scotland is that part of the original Free Church of Scotland that remained outside of the union with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in 1900...

    • Free Church of Scotland (Continuing)
      Free Church of Scotland (Continuing)
      The Free Church of Scotland is a Scottish Presbyterian denomination which was formed in January 2000...

    • Free Presbyterian Church (Australia)
      Free Presbyterian Church (Australia)
      The Free Presbyterian Church Of Australia is a denomination which currently consists of four congregations in fellowship with the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster. There are congregations in Port Lincoln, Perth, Lock and Tasmania.-History:...

    • Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland
      Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland
      The Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland was formed in 1893 and claims to be the spiritual descendant of the Scottish Reformation...

    • Free Presbyterian Church of North America
      Free Presbyterian Church of North America
      The Free Presbyterian Church of North America or FPCNA is a Presbyterian denomination in the United States and Canada with mission works in Liberia, Jamaica, and Kenya...

    • Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster
      Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster
      The Free Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian denomination founded by the Rev. Ian Paisley in 1951. Most of its members live in Northern Ireland...

    • Greek Evangelical Church
      Greek Evangelical Church
      The Greek Evangelical Church is a Presbyterian Reformed denomination in Greece...

    • Orthodox Presbyterian Church
      Orthodox Presbyterian Church
      The Orthodox Presbyterian Church is a conservative Presbyterian denomination located primarily in the United States. It was founded by conservative members of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America who strongly objected to the pervasive Modernist theology during the 1930s . Led...

    • Presbyterian Church in America
      Presbyterian Church in America
      The Presbyterian Church in America is an evangelical Protestant Christian denomination, the second largest Presbyterian church body in the United States after the Presbyterian Church . The PCA professes a strong commitment to evangelism, missionary work, and Christian education...

    • Presbyterian Church in Canada
      Presbyterian Church in Canada
      The Presbyterian Church in Canada is the name of a Protestant Christian church, of presbyterian and reformed theology and polity, serving in Canada under this name since 1875, although the United Church of Canada claimed the right to the name from 1925 to 1939...

    • Presbyterian Church of India
      Presbyterian Church of India
      The Presbyterian Church of India is one of the mainline Protestant Churches in India, with over one million adherents, mostly in Northeast India. It is the largest Christian denomination in that region. The PCI was founded in 1841 by missionaries from the Presbyterian Church of Wales...

    • Presbyterian Church in Ireland
      Presbyterian Church in Ireland
      The Presbyterian Church in Ireland , is the largest Presbyterian denomination in Ireland, and the largest Protestant denomination in Northern Ireland...

    • Presbyterian Church in Taiwan
      Presbyterian Church in Taiwan
      The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan was planted in Taiwan in the 19th century by Dr James Laidlaw Maxwell Snr of the Presbyterian Church of England and Dr George Leslie Mackay of the Presbyterian Church in Canada....

    • Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand
      Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand
      The Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand is the main Presbyterian church in New Zealand.-History:The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand was formed in October 1901 with the amalgamation of churches in Synod of Otago and Southland with those north of the Waitaki River.Presbyterians had by and...
  • Presbyterian Church of Australia
    Presbyterian Church of Australia
    The Presbyterian Church of Australia is the largest Presbyterian denomination in Australia. .-Beginnings:...

  • Presbyterian Church of Brazil
    Presbyterian Church of Brazil
    The Presbyterian Church of Brazil is an Evangelical Protestant Christian denomination in Brazil. Part of the Reformed family of Protestantism, it is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the country, having an estimate 788.553 members, 3,162 ordained ministers and 4,212 churches...

  • Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia
    Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia
    The Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia is a Presbyterian denomination which was formed in Sydney on 10 October 1846 by three ministers and a ruling elder...

  • Presbyterian Church of Korea
    Presbyterian Church of Korea
    The Presbyterian Church of Korea or PCK is a mainline Protestant denomination based in South Korea and currently has the second largest membership of any Presbyterian denomination in the world...

  • Presbyterian Church of Pakistan
    Presbyterian Church of Pakistan
    Presbyterian Church of Pakistan is a major Protestant denomination of Pakistan. The Church of Pakistan is another Christian denomination. The Presbyterian Church of Pakistan has a membership of around 400,000. It was constituted in 1993. It belongs to the World Alliance of Reformed Churches as well...

  • Presbyterian Church of Wales
    Presbyterian Church of Wales
    The Presbyterian Church of Wales , also known as The Calvinistic Methodist Church , is a denomination of Protestant Christianity. It was born out of the Welsh Methodist revival and the preaching of Hywel Harris Howell Harris in the 18th century and seceded from the Church of England in 1811...

     (also a Methodist church)
  • Presbyterian Church (USA)
    Presbyterian Church (USA)
    The Presbyterian Church , or PC, is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination in the United States. Part of the Reformed tradition, it is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the U.S...

  • Presbyterian Reformed Church (Australia)
    Presbyterian Reformed Church (Australia)
    The Presbyterian Reformed Church is a Presbyterian denomination in Australia. The denomination was formed in 1967, when the leadership and majority of the members of the Sutherland, New South Wales congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Australia separated from that denomination...

  • Presbyterian Reformed Church (North America)
  • Reformed Presbyterian Church General Assembly
    Reformed Presbyterian Church General Assembly
    The Reformed Presbyterian Church General Assembly is a conservative Presbyterian denomination in the United States. It was founded in 1991 by members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the Americas. It admits only men into church office and holds to Young Earth creationism...

  • Reformed Presbyterian Church – Hanover Presbytery
  • Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States
    Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States
    The Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States is a small Presbyterian denomination with twelve congregations in the United States. The RPCUS was established in 1983, subscribes to the unrevised Westminster Confession and upholds biblical inerrancy...

  • Reformed Presbyterian Church of Australia
    Reformed Presbyterian Church of Australia
    The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Australia is a Calvinist denomination in Australia. It is a small Australian Presbyterian denomination numbering less than 200 persons with its largest congregation in the area of Geelong, Victoria. The first church, in Geelong, was started in 1858...

  • Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America
    Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America
    The Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America , a Christian church, is a small Presbyterian denomination with churches throughout the United States, in southeastern Canada, and in a small part of Japan. Its beliefs place it in the conservative wing of the Reformed family of Protestant churches...

  • Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland
    Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland
    The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland is a Christian denomination. It is the original church of the Reformed Presbyterian tradition . The RPCS formed in 1690 when its members declined to be part of the establishment of the Church of Scotland...

  • Southern Presbyterian Church (Australia)
    Southern Presbyterian Church (Australia)
    The Southern Presbyterian Church is a small denomination with a community of about 150 persons located exclusively in Tasmania, Australia. It formed in 1986 when two ministers and a number of members left the Evangelical Presbyterian Church because of a difference of belief over doctrinal issues.As...

  • United Free Church of Scotland
    United Free Church of Scotland
    The United Free Church of Scotland is a Scottish Presbyterian denomination formed in 1900 by the union of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the Free Church of Scotland...

  • United Presbyterian Church of North America
    United Presbyterian Church of North America
    The United Presbyterian Church of North America was an American Presbyterian denomination that existed for exactly one hundred years. It was formed on May 26, 1858 by the union of the Northern branch of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church with the Associate Presbyterian Church at a...

  • Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa
    Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa
    The Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa was formed and constituted in 1999 as the outcome of the union between the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa and the Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa .These two churches shared the same origin dating back to the 19th century...

  • United Presbyterian Church of Pakistan
  • Upper Cumberland Presbyterian Church
    Upper Cumberland Presbyterian Church
    The Upper Cumberland Presbyterian Church is a Christian denomination in the United States that maintains less than 1,000 members among twelve congregations in Alabama and Tennessee.-Origins:...

  • Westminster Presbyterian Church of Australia
    Westminster Presbyterian Church of Australia
    The Westminster Presbyterian Church of Australia is a small but growing Presbyterian denomination in Australia. It is based in Western Australia, Queensland, the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, and there is one congregation in the Australian Capital Territory.-History:The Westminster...

  • Westminster Presbyterian Church in the United States
    Westminster Presbyterian Church in the United States
    The Westminster Presbyterian Church in the United States is a small Presbyterian denomination which was constituted in January 2006 in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania...

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    Congregationalist Churches


    • Conservative Congregational Christian Conference
      Conservative Congregational Christian Conference
      The Conservative Congregational Christian Conference, colloquially known as the CCCC or 4C's, is a Protestant Christian denomination operating in the United States. The denomination maintains headquarters in Lake Elmo, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul...

    • English Independents (virtually extinct as a modern and distinct group)
    • Huguenots (virtually extinct as a modern and distinct group)
    • National Association of Congregational Christian Churches
      National Association of Congregational Christian Churches
      The National Association of Congregational Christian Churches is an association of about 400 churches providing fellowship for and services to churches from the Congregational tradition. The Association maintains its national office in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee...

    • United Congregational Church of Southern Africa
      United Congregational Church of Southern Africa
      The United Congregational Church in Southern Africa began with the work of the London Missionary Society, who sent missionaries to the Cape colony in 1799. Congregationalist missionaries from the American Board of Foreign Missions began work in KwaZulu-Natal in 1830, and several congregations of...

    Anabaptists



    • Abecedarian
      Abecedarian
      Abecedarians were a 16th century German sect of Anabaptists who affected an absolute disdain for all human knowledge, contending that God would enlighten his elect from within themselves, giving them knowledge of necessary truths by visions and ecstasies, with which human learning would...

      s (extinct)
    • Amish
      Amish
      The Amish , sometimes referred to as Amish Mennonites, are a group of Christian church fellowships that form a subgroup of the Mennonite churches...
      • Beachy Amish
      • Nebraska Amish
        Nebraska Amish
        The Nebraska Amish are perhaps the most conservative group of Old Order Amish, descendants of the Anabaptists and Mennonites.The present Nebraska Amish districts are found in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, with small extensions into Centre, Huntingdon, and Union counties. The Amish came into this...

      • Old Order Amish
      • Swartzentruber Amish
    • Apostolic Christian Church
      Apostolic Christian Church
      The Apostolic Christian Church is a religious body in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Paraguay, and Japan that originates from the Anabaptist movement....

    Brethren


    • Church of the United Brethren in Christ
      Church of the United Brethren in Christ
      The Church of the United Brethren in Christ is an evangelical Christian denomination based in Huntington, Indiana. It is a Protestant denomination of episcopal structure, Arminian theology, with roots in the Mennonite and German Reformed communities of 18th century Pennsylvania, as well as close...

    • Free Evangelical Churches
      Free Evangelical Churches
      Free Evangelical Churches is a communion of over 60 regional Evangelical free churches in Greece. The great majority of the churches has the name Free Evangelical Church. Free Evangelical Churches can be classified among the Baptist and the Plymouth Brethren churches...

    • Hutterite
      Hutterite
      Hutterites are a communal branch of Anabaptists who, like the Amish and Mennonites, trace their roots to the Radical Reformation of the 16th century. Since the death of their founder Jakob Hutter in 1536, the beliefs of the Hutterites, especially living in a community of goods and absolute...

      s
      • Bruderhof Communities
        Bruderhof Communities
        The Bruderhof Communities are Christian religious communities with branches in New York, Florida and Pennsylvania in the US, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia. They have previously been called The Society of Brothers and were loosely affiliated with the Hutterian Brethren...

    • Mennonite
      Mennonite
      The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named after the Frisian Menno Simons , who, through his writings, articulated and thereby formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders...

      s
      • Alliance of Mennonite Evangelical Congregations
        Alliance of Mennonite Evangelical Congregations
        The Alliance of Mennonite Evangelical Congregations is an association of conservative evangelical Mennonite churches.-Background:The founding of the AMEC was the culmination of a movement to renew the 16th century Anabaptist emphasis on evangelism, coupled with concerns over doctrinal compromise...

      • Chortitzer Mennonite Conference
        Chortitzer Mennonite Conference
        The Chortitzer Mennonite Conference, or Die Mennonitische Gemeinde zu Chortitz, is a small body of Mennonites in western Canada.-History:The forerunners of this group came to Manitoba from Russia in 1874...

      • Church of God in Christ, Mennonite
        Church of God in Christ, Mennonite
        Church of God in Christ, Mennonite is a 19th century offshoot of the Mennonite Church. They are also known as Holdeman Mennonites, after a leader, John Holdeman, who saw the decay in the Old Mennonite Church and having tried his best to reach all the mennonites in the US and Canada, and make them...

         (Holdeman Mennonites)
      • Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Churches in India
        Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Churches in India
        Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Churches in India is the largest Mennonite denomination of India. Its membership exceeds 100,000 persons. It has 103,000 members in 840 congregations. The Presiding officer for the conference is Dr P B Arnold...

      • Conservative Mennonite Conference
        Conservative Mennonite Conference
        The Conservative Mennonite Conference is a Christian body of conservative evangelical Mennonite churches.-Background:The first American settlement of the Amish Mennonites — who separated from the main body of Swiss Brethren and followed Jacob Amman — was in Berks County, Pennsylvania, around...

      • Evangelical Mennonite Church
      • Evangelical Mennonite Conference
        Evangelical Mennonite Conference
        The Evangelical Mennonite Conference is a Canadian Mennonite body of evangelical Christians.-Background:The Evangelical Mennonite Conference began in 1812 in the Molotschna settlement of southern Russia as the Kleine Gemeinde a group of Low German-speaking Mennonites of Dutch-German-Russian...

      • Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference
        Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference
        The Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference ' is an evangelical body of Mennonite Christians, organized on July 1, 1959.The EMMC was formed from the Rudnerweider Mennonite Church, which was organized in 1937...

      • Evangelical Missionary Church
        Evangelical Missionary Church
        The Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada is a Canadian family of churches with historical roots in the pioneer settlement of Ontario and the Canadian West, earlier European migration to the eastern seaboard of the USA, and the Reformation in Europe...

      • Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches
        Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches
        The Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches is an evangelical Christian denomination with an Anabaptist Mennonite heritage.-Background:The Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches was founded at Mountain Lake, Minnesota in 1889 as the Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Conference...

         (formerly Evangelical Mennonite Brethren)
      • Mennonite Brethren Churches
        Mennonite Brethren Churches
        The Mennonite Brethren Church was established among Russian Mennonites in 1860 and has congregations in more than 20 countries representing well over 300,000 believers as of 2003.-History:...
        • Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches
          Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches
          The Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches is an association of Mennonite Christians with origins in southern Russia. It is part of the larger Mennonite Brethren Church and shares some common history with the US Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches.-Background:A small group of...

        • Japan Mennonite Brethren Conference
          Japan Mennonite Brethren Conference
          The Japan Mennonite Brethren Conference, or 日本メノナイトブレザレン教団 Nihon Menonaito Burezaren Kyoudan, is an organization serving the Mennonite Brethren churches of Japan....

        • US Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches
      • Mennonite Church Canada
        Mennonite Church Canada
        Mennonite Church Canada is the conference of Mennonites in Canada, with head offices in Winnipeg, Manitoba.The first Mennonites in Canada arrived from Pennsylvania in 1786. The majority of the Mennonites that migrated to Canada over the next 150 years came directly from Europe...

      • Mennonite Church in the Netherlands
        Mennonite Church in the Netherlands
        The Mennonite Church in the Netherlands, or Algemene Doopsgezinde Sociëteit, is a body of Mennonite Christians in the Netherlands.The Mennonites are named for Menno Simons , a Dutch Roman Catholic priest from the Province of Friesland who converted to Anabaptism around 1536...
  • Mennonite Church USA
    Mennonite Church USA
    The Mennonite Church USA, or MCUSA, is an Anabaptist Christian denomination in the United States. Although the organization is a recent 2002 merger of the Mennonite Church and the General Conference Mennonite Church, the body has roots in the Radical Reformation of the 16th century...

  • Missionary Church
    Missionary Church
    The Missionary Church is an evangelical Christian denomination of Anabaptist origins with Wesleyan, Pietist, and Keswickian influences.-Faith and practice:...

  • Old Order Mennonites
  • Swiss Mennonite Conference
    Swiss Mennonite Conference
    The Swiss Mennonite Conference is an Anabaptist Christian body in Switzerland....

  • Plymouth Brethren
    Plymouth Brethren
    The Plymouth Brethren is a conservative, Evangelical Christian movement, whose history can be traced to Dublin, Ireland, in the late 1820s. Although the group is notable for not taking any official "church name" to itself, and not having an official clergy or liturgy, the title "The Brethren," is...
    • Exclusive Brethren
      Exclusive Brethren
      The Exclusive Brethren are a subset of the Christian evangelical movement generally described as the Plymouth Brethren. They are distinguished from the Open Brethren from whom they separated in 1848....

    • Indian Brethren
      Indian Brethren
      The Brethren are a Christian Evangelical premillennial religious movement.The "Brethren" churches or Assemblies are completely independent of each other.Local assemblies are autonomous but are often informally linked with each other....

    • Kerala Brethren
      Kerala brethren
      The Kerala Brethren are a subgroup of the larger Christian movement known as the Plymouth Brethren. Kerala is a small state in India, where this movement started in 1898 with the baptism of four men from traditional churches...

    • Open Brethren
      Open Brethren
      The Open Brethren, sometimes called Christian Brethren or "Plymouth Brethren", are a group of Protestant Evangelical Christian churches that arose in the late 1820s as part of the Assembly Movement...

  • River Brethren
    River Brethren
    The River Brethren is a name used to indicate certain Christian groups originating in 1770, during a revival movement among German colonizers in Pennsylvania....
    • Brethren in Christ Church
      Brethren in Christ Church
      The Brethren in Christ Church is an Anabaptist Christian denomination with roots in the Mennonite church, pietism, and Wesleyan holiness. They have also been known as River Brethren and River Mennonites.-Background:...

    • Old Order River Brethren
      Old Order River Brethren
      The Old Order River Brethren is a small Christian denomination with roots in the Mennonite church and German pietism.This body began about 1778 in Pennsylvania. It shares an early history with the Brethren in Christ Church. A group of brethren near the Susquehanna River that had separated from the...

    • United Zion Church
      United Zion Church
      The United Zion Church is a small Christian denomination with roots in the Mennonite church and German pietism.A body that became known as River Brethren began about 1778 in Pennsylvania. They were a group of brethren near the Susquehanna River that had separated from the Mennonites. As such groups...

  • Schwarzenau Brethren
    Schwarzenau Brethren
    The Schwarzenau Brethren, originated in Germany, the outcome of the Radical Pietist ferment of the late 17th and early 18th century. Hopeful of the imminent return of Christ, the founding Brethren abandoned the established Reformed and Lutheran churches, forming a new church in 1708 when their...
    • Brethren Reformed Church
      Brethren Reformed Church
      The Brethren Reformed Church was formed in May 2007, near Dayton, Ohio. Families previously affiliated with the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, the Conservative Grace Brethren Churches, International and the Southern Baptist Convention formed this new fellowship of...

    • Church of the Brethren
      Church of the Brethren
      The Church of the Brethren is a Christian denomination originating from the Schwarzenau Brethren organized in 1708 by eight persons led by Alexander Mack, in Schwarzenau, Bad Berleburg, Germany. The Brethren movement began as a melding of Radical Pietist and Anabaptist ideas during the...

    • Conservative Grace Brethren Churches, International
      Conservative Grace Brethren Churches, International
      Conservative Grace Brethren Churches, International is a conservative group that separated from the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches....

    • Dunkard Brethren
      Dunkard Brethren
      The Dunkard Brethren are a small group of conservative Schwarzenau Brethren churches that withdrew from the Church of the Brethren.The Church of the Brethren represents the largest body of churches that descended from the original pietist movement began in Germany by Alexander Mack and 7 other...

    • Ephrata Cloister
      Ephrata Cloister
      The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community was a religious community, established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania...

    • Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches
      Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches
      The Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches is a theologically conservative fellowship of Brethren churches descended from the Schwarzenau Brethren movement of Alexander Mack of Germany.-History:...

    • Old German Baptist Brethren
      Old German Baptist Brethren
      Old German Baptist Brethren descend from a pietist movement in Schwarzenau, Germany, in 1708, when Alexander Mack founded a fellowship with seven other believers. They are one of several Brethren groups that trace themselves to that original founding body...

    • Old Order German Baptist Brethren
      Old Order German Baptist Brethren
      The Old Order German Baptist Brethren are a small group of Schwarzenau Brethren that split from the Old German Baptist Brethren in 1921, when members of the latter began to accept automobiles...

    • The Brethren Church
      The Brethren Church
      The Brethren Church is one of several groups that traces its origins back to the Schwarzenau Brethren of Germany. In the mid-19th century, the church began to struggle over modernization. Progressives stressed evangelism, objected to distinctive dress, and objected to the supremacy of the annual...

       (Ashland Brethren)
  • Social Brethren
    Social Brethren
    The Social Brethren is a small body of evangelical Christians located in the Midwestern United States and the Philippines.The Social Brethren originated in Saline County, Illinois in 1867. Frank Wright and Hiram T. Brannon were among those who led in the founding of this denomination...

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    Methodists


    • African Methodist Episcopal Church
      African Methodist Episcopal Church
      The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the A.M.E. Church, is a predominantly African American Methodist denomination based in the United States. It was founded by the Rev. Richard Allen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1816 from several black Methodist congregations in the...

    • African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
      African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
      The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, or AME Zion Church, is a historically African-American Christian denomination. It was officially formed in 1821, but operated for a number of years before then....

    • British Methodist Episcopal Church
      British Methodist Episcopal Church
      The British Methodist Episcopal Church is a Protestant church in Canada that has its roots in the African Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States....

    • Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
      Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
      The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is a historically black denomination within the broader context of Methodism. The group was organized in 1870 when several black ministers, with the full support of their white counterparts in the former Methodist Episcopal Church, South, met to form an...

    • Congregational Methodist Church
      Congregational Methodist Church
      The Congregational Methodist Church is a Christian denomination located primarily in the southern United States and northeastern Mexico. It is within the Holiness movement and has its theological roots in the Wesleyan teachings of John Wesley....

    • Evangelical Church of America
    • Evangelical Church of the Dominican Republic
      Evangelical Church of the Dominican Republic
      The Evangelical Church of the Dominican Republic is one of the largest Protestant denominations in the Dominican Republic with approximately 10,000 members in 55 congregations.- History :...

    • Evangelical Methodist Church
      Evangelical Methodist Church
      The Evangelical Methodist Church is a Christian denomination headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. The denomination currently has churches in the United States, Mexico, Burma/Myanmar, Canada, Europe, and Africa. Congregations are located in 23 U.S. states, and they have a presence in 20 other...

    • First Congregational Methodist Church
      First Congregational Methodist Church
      The First Congregational Methodist Church is a Christian denomination in the Southern United States. It has its theological roots in the teachings of John Wesley and adheres to the Methodist Articles of Religion....

    • Free Methodist Church
      Free Methodist Church
      The Free Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination within the holiness movement. It is evangelical in nature and has its roots in the Arminian-Wesleyan tradition....

    • Southern Methodist Church
      Southern Methodist Church
      The Southern Methodist Church is a conservative Protestant Christian denomination with churches located in the southern part of the United States...

    • Methodist Church of India
    • Methodist Church of Ireland
    • Methodist Church of Singapore
    • Methodist Church of Fiji and Rotuma
      Methodist Church of Fiji and Rotuma
      The Methodist Church of Fiji and Rotuma is the largest Christian denomination in Fiji, with 36.2 percent of the total population at the 1996 census...

    • Methodist Church of Great Britain
      Methodist Church of Great Britain
      The Methodist Church of Great Britain is the largest Wesleyan Methodist body in the United Kingdom, with congregations across Great Britain . It is the United Kingdom's fourth largest Christian denomination, with around 300,000 members and 6,000 churches...

    • Methodist Church of Malaysia
    • Methodist Church of New Zealand
      Methodist Church of New Zealand
      The Methodist Church of New Zealand — Te Hahi Weteriana O Aotearoa is a Methodist denomination headquartered in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is a member of the World Council of Churches.-External links:*...

    • Methodist Church of Southern Africa
      Methodist Church of Southern Africa
      The Methodist Church of Southern Africa is a member church of the World Methodist Council.Methodism in Southern Africa began as a result of lay Christian work by an Irish soldier of the English Regiment, John Irwin, who was stationed at the Cape and began to hold prayer meetings as early as 1795...

    • Primitive Methodist Church
    • United Methodist Church
      United Methodist Church
      The United Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination which is both mainline Protestant and evangelical. Founded in 1968 by the union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, the UMC traces its roots back to the revival movement of John and Charles Wesley...

    Pietists and Holiness Churches



    • The Wesleyan Church
    • The Salvation Army
      The Salvation Army
      The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian church known for its thrift stores and charity work. It is an international movement that currently works in over a hundred countries....

    • The Church of the Nazarene
    • Church of God (Anderson)
      Church of God (Anderson)
      The Church of God is a holiness Christian body with roots in Wesleyan pietism and also in the restorationist traditions. Founded in 1881 by Daniel Sidney Warner, the church claims 1,170,143 adherents...

    • Christian and Missionary Alliance
      Christian and Missionary Alliance
      The Christian and Missionary Alliance is an evangelical Protestant denomination within Christianity.Founded by Rev. Albert Benjamin Simpson in 1887, the Christian & Missionary Alliance did not start off as a denomination, but rather began as two distinct parachurch organizations: The Christian...



    • Bible Fellowship Church
      Bible Fellowship Church
      The Bible Fellowship Church is a conservative pietistic Christian denomination with Mennonite roots.-History:The Bible Fellowship Church history begins with the formation of the Evangelische Mennoniten Gemeinschaft on September 24, 1858 in Milford Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania...

    • Christian Baptist Church of God
      Christian Baptist Church of God
      The Ohio Valley Association of the Christian Baptist Churches of God is a baptist holiness denomination in the Ohio Valley area of the United States. It was formed January 3, 1931 in Portsmouth, Ohio...

    • Christ's Sanctified Holy Church
      Christ's Sanctified Holy Church
      Christ's Sanctified Holy Church is a holiness denomination located primarily in the Southeastern United States. The group was organized on February 14, 1892, when members of the Methodist Episcopal Church on Chincoteague Island, Virginia, became convinced that they could not be saved without...

    • Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A.
      Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A.
      The Church of Christ U.S.A. is a Holiness body of Christians headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi. In 2010, there were 14,000 members in 154 churches.- History :...

    • Church of God (Guthrie, Oklahoma)
      Church of God (Guthrie, Oklahoma)
      The Church of God is a Christian church with roots in the holiness movement.-History:George Winn, an ex-slave, founded the Guthrie congregation at Guthrie in 1905. Its early work toward racial integration gained it the pejorative title The Church of God ...

    • Church of God (Holiness)
      Church of God (Holiness)
      The Church of God is an association of autonomous holiness Christian congregations. It is an outgrowth of the 19th-century holiness movement.-History:...

    • Church of God (Restoration)
      Church of God (Restoration)
      The Church of God is a Christian denomination that was founded in the 1980s by Daniel Layne . In a booklet written by Mr. Layne in the early 1980s, he claimed to be an ex-heroin addict who spent years dealing drugs and living a life of crime and sin on the streets of San Francisco...

    • Deeper Life Bible Church
    • Missionary Church
      Missionary Church
      The Missionary Church is an evangelical Christian denomination of Anabaptist origins with Wesleyan, Pietist, and Keswickian influences.-Faith and practice:...

    • United Christian Church
      United Christian Church
      The denomination known as the United Christian Church is a small evangelical body of Christians with roots in the pietistic movement of Martin Boehm and William Otterbein...


    Baptists


    Note: All Baptist associations are congregationalist
    Congregationalist polity
    Congregationalist polity, often known as congregationalism, is a system of church governance in which every local church congregation is independent, ecclesiastically sovereign, or "autonomous"...

     affiliations for the purpose of cooperation, in which each local church is governmentally independent.
    The most prominent Baptist organizations in the United States are the American Baptist Association
    American Baptist Association
    The American Baptist Association , formed in 1924, is an association of nearly 2,000 theologically conservative churches that are Landmark Baptist in their missions and teachings...

    , tending to be more liberal
    Liberal Christianity
    Liberal Christianity, sometimes called liberal theology, is an umbrella term covering diverse, philosophically and biblically informed religious movements and ideas within Christianity from the late 18th century and onward...

    , the National Baptist Convention
    National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
    The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. is the largest predominantly African-American Christian denomination in the United States and is the world's second largest Baptist denomination...

    , tending to be more moderate and
    the Southern Baptist Convention
    Southern Baptist Convention
    The Southern Baptist Convention is a United States-based Christian denomination. It is the world's largest Baptist denomination and the largest Protestant body in the United States, with over 16 million members...

    , tending to be more conservative
    Conservative Christianity
    Conservative Christianity is a term applied to a number of groups or movements seen as giving priority to traditional Christian beliefs and practices...

    .


    • African United Baptist Association of Nova Scotia
    • Alliance of Baptists
      Alliance of Baptists
      The Alliance of Baptists is a fellowship of Baptist churches and individuals in the United States. In its theology and social stances, the Alliance is characterized as a progressive or liberal Christian fellowship...

    • American Baptist Association
      American Baptist Association
      The American Baptist Association , formed in 1924, is an association of nearly 2,000 theologically conservative churches that are Landmark Baptist in their missions and teachings...

    • American Baptist Churches USA
      American Baptist Churches USA
      The American Baptist Churches USA is a Baptist Christian denomination within the United States. The denomination maintains headquarters in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The organization is usually considered mainline, although varying theological and mission emphases may be found among its...

    • Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland
      Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland
      The Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland is a Republic of Ireland and a United Kingdom based Baptist Christian denomination. It is a group of 121 autonomous Baptist churches on Ireland working and fellowshipping together in evangelism, training and caring ministries...

    • Association of Grace Baptist Churches
      Association of Grace Baptist Churches
      The Association of Grace Baptist Churches is any one of three regional church associations in England in cooperation with one another and with the Grace Baptist Assembly.*Association of Grace Baptist Churches - founded 1969...

    • Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America
      Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America
      The Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America is an Association of Reformed Baptist churches that was founded March 11, 1997. The association's churches all ascribe to the London Baptist Confession of Faith, which was originally adopted in 1689 by the Particular Baptist Association of...

    • Association of Regular Baptist Churches
      Association of Regular Baptist Churches
      The Association of Regular Baptist Churches is one of the smaller Canadian Baptist bodies. Formed in 1957, the association is fundamentalist and separatist in its doctrine. ARBC supports the Toronto Baptist Seminary and Bible College, and publishes The Gospel Witness. Currently the ARBC has 10...

    • Baptist Bible Fellowship International
      Baptist Bible Fellowship International
      The Baptist Bible Fellowship International is a separatist, fundamentalist Baptist organization formed in 1950 by members who separated from the World Baptist Fellowship. It is headquartered in Springfield, Missouri...

    • Baptist Conference of the Philippines
      Baptist Conference of the Philippines
      The Baptist Conference of the Philippines is an association of Baptist churches in the Philippines that is affiliated with the Baptist General Conference. Work began in Cebu in 1949 with 5 missionaries...

    • Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec
      Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec
      Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec is the oldest union of Baptist churches in central Canada.In 1880 a "Baptist Union of Canada" was formed. Since the churches were located chiefly in the central provinces, the name was changed in 1888 to "Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec"...

    • Baptist Convention of Western Cuba
      Baptist Convention of Western Cuba
      Baptist Convention of Western Cuba or Convención Bautista de Cuba Occidental is an association of cooperating Baptist churches in western Cuba....

    • Baptist General Conference
      Baptist General Conference
      The Baptist General Conference is a national evangelical Baptist body with roots in Pietism in Sweden and inroads among evangelical Scandinavian-Americans, particularly in the American Upper Midwest. From its beginning among Scandinavian immigrants, the BGC has grown to a nationwide association...

       (Sweden)
    • Baptist General Conference of Canada
      Baptist General Conference of Canada
      Baptist General Conference of Canada is a national body of evangelical Baptist churches introduced to Canada by Swedish Baptists late in the 19th century....

    • Baptist General Convention of Texas
      Baptist General Convention of Texas
      The Baptist General Convention of Texas is the oldest surviving Baptist convention in the state of Texas. The churches cooperating with the Baptist General Convention of Texas partner nationally and internationally with both the Southern Baptist Convention and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship,...

    • Baptist Missionary Association of America
      Baptist Missionary Association of America
      The Baptist Missionary Association of America is a fellowship of autonomous Baptist churches for the purpose of benevolence, Christian education, and missions....

    • Baptist Union of Australia
      Baptist Union of Australia
      The Baptist Union of Australia is the oldest and largest national cooperative body of Baptists in Australia. Its current National President is Reverend Dr John Beasy. The BUA is now known as Australian Baptist Ministries - ABM...

    • Baptist Union of Great Britain
      Baptist Union of Great Britain
      The Baptist Union of Great Britain, despite its name, is the association of Baptist churches in England and Wales. -History:...

    • Baptist Union of New Zealand
      Baptist Union of New Zealand
      The Baptist Union of New Zealand is an association of Baptist churches in the country of New Zealand.Several Baptists settled in New Zealand in the 1840s, but the first Baptist minister, Decimus Dolamore from Yorkshire, England, did not arrive until May 1851...

    • Baptist Union of Scotland
      Baptist Union of Scotland
      The Baptist Union of Scotland is the main denomination of Baptist churches in Scotland.-From the 1650s to 1869:Baptists first arrived in Scotland with the armies of English republican Oliver Cromwell in the 1650s, who established small churches in Leith, Perth, Cupar, Ayr and Aberdeen, but they did...

    • Baptist Union of Western Canada
    • Baptist World Alliance
      Baptist World Alliance
      The Baptist World Alliance is a worldwide alliance of Baptist churches and organizations, formed in 1905 at Exeter Hall in London during the first Baptist World Congress.-History:...

    • Bible Baptist
    • Black Primitive Baptists
    • Canadian Baptist Ministries
    • Canadian Convention of Southern Baptists
    • Central Baptist Association
      Central Baptist Association
      The Central Baptist Association is an association of churches located from South Carolina to Indiana, with most of the churches being in eastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. In 1956, some churches of the Eastern District Primitive Baptist Association separated and formed the Central Baptist...

    • Central Canada Baptist Conference
    • Christian Unity Baptist Association
      Christian Unity Baptist Association
      The Christian Unity Baptist Association was organized September 27-September 28, 1935 at Zion Hill Church in Ashe County, North Carolina, by six Baptist congregations. Some of these churches were remnants of the Macedonia Baptist Association, which existed for a short time in the first quarter of...

    • Conservative Baptist Association
    • Conservative Baptist Association of America
      Conservative Baptist Association of America
      -History:The first organization of Conservative Baptists was the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society , now called WorldVenture, formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1943. The Conservative Baptist Association of America was organized in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1947. The Association operates...

    • Continental Baptist Churches
      Continental Baptist Churches
      Continental Baptist Churches is an association of "Calvinistic" Baptist churches holding New Covenant theology, organized in June 1983. The roots of this movement are in the Baptist Reformation Review, founded by Norbert Ward at Nashville, Tennessee in 1972, and the Sword and the Trowel, edited by...

    • Convención Nacional Bautista de Mexico
    • Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches
      Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches
      Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches - an association of Baptist Churches in the eastern provinces of Canada.The Baptist Convention of the Maritime Provinces was founded in 1846...

    • Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars
      Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars
      The Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars is a Christian denomination in north coastal Andhra Pradesh.CBCNC is a member body of the Baptist World Alliance, and an affiliate member Church of the National Council of Churches in India .Missionaries of the Canadian Baptist Mission founded...

    • Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India
      Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India
      Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India is a major Christian denomination of India. It does not belong to the Baptist World Alliance or the World Council of Churches. It belongs to the National Council of Churches in India, however. Furthermore, it is a member of the Asia Pacific Baptist...

    • Council of Baptist Churches in Northern India
      Council of Baptist Churches in Northern India
      Council of Baptist Churches in Northern India is a major Christian denomination of India. It belongs to the Baptist World Alliance. It is not affiliated with the World Council of Churches, however. The Council of Baptist Churches in Northern India belongs to the National Council of Churches in...

    • Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
      Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
      The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is a Christian fellowship of Baptist churches formed in 1991. Theologically moderate, the CBF withdrew from the Southern Baptist Convention over philosophical and theological differences, such as the SBC prohibition of women serving as pastors. The Cooperative...

    • European Baptist Convention
      European Baptist Convention
      European Baptist Convention was an association of English-speaking churches and missions in Europe and Middle East. The European Baptist Convention , not to be confused with the European Baptist Federation, has its roots in the Association of Baptists in Continental Europe and mission work by the...

    • European Baptist Federation
      European Baptist Federation
      The European Baptist Federation is a federation of 51 Baptist associations and is one of six regional fellowships in the Baptist World Alliance. The EBF was founded in Ruschlikon, Switzerland, in 1949. It lays a great deal of emphasis on human rights, religious liberty and aid programs. The...

    • Evangelical Baptist Mission of South Haiti
      Evangelical Baptist Mission of South Haiti
      The Evangelical Baptist Mission of South Haiti or Mission Evangélique Baptiste du Sud-Haiti grew out of the successful efforts of the non-denominational World Team and the Cuba Bible Institute...

    • Evangelical Free Baptist Church
      Evangelical Free Baptist Church
      The Evangelical Free Baptist Church was incorporated in Du Page County, Illinois in 1978. The group was formed by churches that withdrew from the Southern Baptist Convention, following a doctrinal dispute in 1952. It presently has approximately 3,000 to 5,000 churches worldwide and about 50,000...

    • Evangelical Baptist Church of Kent
    • Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada
      Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada
      The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada, often known simply as The Fellowship is a conservative Baptist denomination in Canada. It was formed in 1953 as a result of a merger of the Union of Regular Baptist Churches of Ontario and Quebec and the Fellowship of Independent Baptist...

    • Free Will Baptist Church
      Free Will Baptist Church
      Free Will Baptist is a denomination of churches that share a common history, name, and an acceptance of the Arminian theology of free grace, free salvation, and free will. Free Will Baptists share similar soteriological views with General Baptists, Separate Baptists and some United Baptists...

    • Fundamental Baptist Fellowship of America
    • General Association of Baptists
      General Association of Baptists
      Though the annual meeting of this group is denominated the The General Association of The Baptists, they are most widely known as the Duck River and Kindred Associations of Baptists. Other names associated with these churches are the Baptist Church of Christ, The Baptists, and Separate Baptists...

    • General Association of General Baptists
      General Association of General Baptists
      General Association of General Baptists - a group of Baptists holding the general atonement , located mostly in the midwestern United States....

    • General Association of Regular Baptist Churches
      General Association of Regular Baptist Churches
      The General Association of Regular Baptist Churches is one of several Baptist groups in North America retaining the name "Regular Baptist"....

    • General Conference of the Evangelical Baptist Church, Inc.
      General Conference of the Evangelical Baptist Church, Inc.
      The General Conference of the Evangelical Baptist Church, Inc. was organized in 1935 as the Church of the Full Gospel, Inc, by members of several Free Will Baptist churches, under the leadership of William Howard Carter. The organization currently is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona....

    • General Six-Principle Baptists
      General Six-Principle Baptists
      The Six-Principle Baptists were the first Baptist association in the Americas. The "six-principles" adhered to are those listed in :* Repentance* Faith* Baptism* Laying on of hands* Resurrection of the dead* Final judgment...

    • Grace Baptist Assembly
      Grace Baptist Assembly
      The Grace Baptist Assembly is designed to facilitate the fellowship of Particular Baptist churches. It was first organised in England in 1980, when the Strict Baptist Assembly and the Assembly of baptized churches holding the doctrines of grace voluntarily agreed to cease their organisations and...

    • Independent Baptist
      Independent Baptist
      Independent Baptist churches are Christian churches generally holding to conservative Baptist beliefs. They are characterized by being independent from the authority of denominations or similar bodies. Members of such churches comprised three percent of the United States adult population according...
  • Independent Baptist Church of America
    Independent Baptist Church of America
    The Independent Baptist Church of America traces its foundation back to a church or churches organized at Dassel, Minnesota in 1893 by Swedish Free Baptist immigrants, known as the Scandinavian Baptist Church in America In 1926 the denomination has 13 churches with 22 members; in 1956, there...

  • Independent Baptist Fellowship International
    Independent Baptist Fellowship International
    The Independent Baptist Fellowship International, or I.B.F.I., was formed on May 10, 1984, at Fort Worth, Texas, as a fellowship of independent, fundamentalist Baptist churches. Its founding resulted from a controversy involving Arlington Baptist College of Arlington, Texas, an affiliate of the...

  • Independent Baptist Fellowship of North America
    Independent Baptist Fellowship of North America
    The Independent Baptist Fellowship of North America is a separatist fundamentalist independent Baptist fellowship for pastors and laymembers...

  • Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptist Association
    Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptist Association
    Organized in 1951 as the Interstate and Foreign Missionary Baptist Associational Assembly of America, this group is now known as the Interstate and Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptist Association of America. Their purpose is to encourage fellowship among Missionary Baptist churches that practice...

  • Landmark Baptist Church
  • Liberty Baptist Fellowship
    Liberty Baptist Fellowship
    Liberty Baptist Fellowship is a fellowship of independent Baptist churches that grew up around Jerry Falwell, Thomas Road Baptist Church of Lynchburg, Virginia, and Liberty University. Most pastors of the Fellowship are alumni of Liberty University...

  • Manipur Baptist Convention
    Manipur Baptist Convention
    Manipur Baptist Convention is an apex body of the Baptist Churches in Manipur, India. At present, it has 29 Associations, over 1330 Churches and approximately 2,00,000 baptized members. It is under the Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India . The convention is also a member of Asia Pacific...

  • Myanmar Baptist Convention
  • Nagaland Baptist Church Council
    Nagaland Baptist Church Council
    Nagaland Baptist Church Council is a Protestant church of India. It is in the North Eastern state of Nagaland. It counts more than 1001 congregations. It has over 600,000 members. More than 20 Naga Baptist conventions are affiliated to it. Baptists form more than 80% of Nagaland's population and...

  • National Association of Free Will Baptists
    National Association of Free Will Baptists
    The National Association of Free Will Baptists is a national body of Free Will Baptist churches in the United States and Canada, organized on November 5, 1935 in Nashville, Tennessee...

  • National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.
    National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.
    The National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. is an African-American Baptist body organized in 1915 as the result of a struggle to keep the National Baptist Publishing Board of Nashville independent. Those supporting the independence of the publishing board, headed by Rev. R. H...

  • National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
    National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
    The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. is the largest predominantly African-American Christian denomination in the United States and is the world's second largest Baptist denomination...

  • National Baptist Evangelical Life and Soul Saving Assembly of the U.S.A.
    National Baptist Evangelical Life and Soul Saving Assembly of the U.S.A.
    The National Baptist Evangelical Life and Soul Saving Assembly of the United States of America is an African-American missions body first formed as an auxiliary of the National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.. This body was founded in 1920 in Kansas City, Missouri by Captain Allan Arthur...

  • National Missionary Baptist Convention of America
    National Missionary Baptist Convention of America
    The National Missionary Baptist Convention of America is an African-American Baptist convention which combined the efforts of Missionary Baptist churches and organizations throughout the country with the goal of unity for capable and efficient ministry. The NMBCA also seeks to propagate Baptist...

  • National Primitive Baptist Convention of the U.S.A.
    National Primitive Baptist Convention of the U.S.A.
    The National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA is a group of Black Primitive Baptists that has adopted progressive methods and policies not in keeping with the historical and theological background of Primitive Baptists in general. The Convention was organized in Huntsville, Alabama in 1907...

  • New England Evangelical Baptist Fellowship
    New England Evangelical Baptist Fellowship
    The New England Evangelical Baptist Fellowship was organized in Kennebunk, Maine on January 2, 1844¹. In 2001, there were 10 churches located in Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire with a possible membership of 600. The NEEBF holds quarterly sessions...

  • Nigerian Baptist Convention
    Nigerian Baptist Convention
    The Nigerian Baptist Convention is the second largest Baptist convention affiliating with the Baptist World Alliance, and the third largest in the world after the Southern Baptist Convention, USA, and National Baptist Convention, USA...

  • North American Baptist Conference
    North American Baptist Conference
    North American Baptist Conference - initially an association of Baptists in the United States and Canada of German ethnic heritage.The roots of the NABC go back to 1839, when Konrad Anton Fleischmann began work in New Jersey and Pennsylvania with German immigrants. Fleischmann was a Swiss...

  • North Bank Baptist Christian Association
    North Bank Baptist Christian Association
    North Bank Baptist Christian Association is a Protestant church of India. It has about 800 congregations. It has about 80,000 members. It belongs to the Baptist World Alliance....

  • Norwegian Baptist Union
    Norwegian Baptist Union
    The Norwegian Baptist Union is a national organization of Baptists in Norway for promoting cooperation in missions, benevolence, and education; also called the Baptist Union of Norway....

  • Old Baptist Union
    Old Baptist Union
    The Old Baptist Union is a group of evangelical Baptist churches in the United Kingdom. The Old Baptist Union was founded in 1880, owing largely to the labours of Henry Squire, an itinerant preacher...

  • Old Regular Baptist
    Old Regular Baptist
    The Old Regular Baptists are an American Christian denomination based primarily in the Appalachian region of the United States.-History:Most Regular Baptists merged with the Separate Baptists near the beginning of 19th century. The party names were dropped in favor of United Baptists...

  • Old Time Missionary Baptist
  • Primitive Baptist
    Primitive Baptist
    Primitive Baptists, also known as Hard Shell Baptists or Anti-Mission Baptists, are conservative, Calvinist Baptists adhering to beliefs that formed out of the controversy among Baptists in the early 1800’s over the appropriateness of mission boards, bible tract societies, and temperance...

  • Progressive Baptist
    Progressive Baptist
    Progressive Baptists are members of the Progressive National Baptist Convention or any number of Baptist groups that are progressive in their methods. Groups such as the Alliance of Baptists, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, and many others frequently use progressive as a self-descriptive term...

  • Progressive National Baptist Convention
    Progressive National Baptist Convention
    The Progressive National Baptist Convention, Incorporated is a convention of African-American Baptists emphasizing civil rights and social justice....

  • Reformed Baptist
    Reformed Baptist
    Reformed Baptists are Baptists that hold to a Calvinist soteriology. They can trace their history through the early modern Particular Baptists of England. The first Reformed Baptist church was formed in the 1630s...

  • Regular Baptist Churches, General Association of
  • Regular Baptist
    Regular Baptist
    Regular Baptists are a diverse group of Baptists in the United States and Canada. The presence of the modifier "Regular" in their names attests to the strong influence of the early Regular Baptists on the growth of Baptists in North America. Two strains of Baptists emigrated from England to America...

  • Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches
    Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches
    Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches are churches, that form a denomination in India.The churches are part of the Telugu Christian community of Southern India. Its language isTelugu. It belongs to the Baptist World Alliance....

  • Separate Baptist
    Separate Baptist
    The Separate Baptists were an 18th century group of Baptists in the United States, primarily in the South, that grew out of the Great Awakening....

  • Separate Baptists in Christ
    Separate Baptists in Christ
    The Separate Baptists in Christ are a denomination of Separate Baptists found mostly in United States.-History:The Separate Baptists had no formal statement of faith before 1776. They only followed the Bible. In 1776 there was split in the Separate Baptist movement over the Arminian system...

  • Seventh Day Baptist
    Seventh Day Baptist
    Seventh Day Baptists are Christian Baptists who observe Sabbath on the seventh-day of the week in accord with their understanding of the Biblical Sabbath for the Judeo-Christian tradition...

  • Southeast Conservative Baptist
    Southeast Conservative Baptist
    Southeast Conservative Baptists is one of nine regional associations fellowshipping with the Conservative Baptist Association of America. This region consists of Alabama, South Carolina, Florida, Kentucky & Grand Bahama, and is a developing region outside of the geographical center of Conservative...

  • Southern Baptist Convention
    Southern Baptist Convention
    The Southern Baptist Convention is a United States-based Christian denomination. It is the world's largest Baptist denomination and the largest Protestant body in the United States, with over 16 million members...

  • Southern Baptists of Texas
    Southern Baptists of Texas
    The Southern Baptists of Texas Convention is a convention of conservative Southern Baptist churches in Texas. It is supportive of the national Southern Baptist Convention...

  • Sovereign Grace Baptists
    Sovereign Grace Baptists
    Sovereign Grace Baptists in the broadest sense are any "Calvinistic" Baptists that accept God's sovereign grace in salvation and predestination, including Primitive Baptists, Reformed Baptists, Continental Baptist Churches and Strict Baptists...

  • Strict Baptists
    Strict Baptists
    Strict Baptists, also known as Particular Baptists, are Baptists who believe in a Calvinist or Reformed interpretation of Christian soteriology. The Particular Baptists arose in England in the 17th century and took their namesake from the doctrine of particular redemption.-Further reading:*History...

  • Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists
    Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists
    Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists are part of a larger sub-group of Baptists that is commonly referred to as "anti-mission" Baptists. This sub-group includes the Duck River and Kindred Baptists, Old Regular Baptists, some Regular Baptists and some United Baptists...

  • Union d'Églises baptistes françaises au Canada
  • United American Free Will Baptist Church
    United American Free Will Baptist Church
    The United American Free Will Baptist Church is the oldest national body of predominantly black Free Will Baptists in the United States.-History:...

  • United American Free Will Baptist Conference
    United American Free Will Baptist Conference
    United American Free Will Baptist Conference, Inc. is the smaller of the two African-American Free Will Baptist conferences in the United States.-History:...

  • United Baptist
    United Baptist
    United Baptist is name of several diverse Baptist groups of Protestant Christianity in the United States and Canada.-History:The name "United Baptist" appears to have arisen from two separate unions of Baptist groups: the union of Regular Baptists and Separate Baptists in Kentucky, Virginia, and...

  • United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces
  • United Free Will Baptist
    United Free Will Baptist
    A United Free Will Baptist is a member of either of two African-American Free Will Baptist denominations: the United American Free Will Baptist Church or the United American Free Will Baptist Conference....

  • World Baptist Fellowship
    World Baptist Fellowship
    The World Baptist Fellowship is a separatist, fundamentalist Baptist organization. The organization was founded by J. Frank Norris of Texas, a southern fundamentalist leader in the first half of the 20th century.-Background:...

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    Spiritual Baptists


    Note: The Spiritual Baptist Archdiocese of New York, Inc has congregationalist
    Congregationalist polity
    Congregationalist polity, often known as congregationalism, is a system of church governance in which every local church congregation is independent, ecclesiastically sovereign, or "autonomous"...

     affiliations for the purpose of cooperation, in which each local church is governmentally independent.
    • The Spiritual Baptist Archdiocese of New York, Inc.
      The Spiritual Baptist Archdiocese of New York, Inc.
      The Spiritual Baptist Archdiocese of New York, Inc., is the Spiritual Baptist archdiocese that covers the North America region. The Archdiocese comprises a number of independently operated Spiritual Baptist Churches, considers itself the only diocese in the United States in terms of The Spiritual...


    Apostolic Churches – Irvingites

    • Catholic Apostolic Church
      Catholic Apostolic Church
      The Catholic Apostolic Church was a religious movement which originated in England around 1831 and later spread to Germany and the United States. While often referred to as Irvingism, it was neither actually founded nor anticipated by Edward Irving. The Catholic Apostolic Church was organised in...
      • New Apostolic Church
        New Apostolic Church
        The New Apostolic Church is a chiliastic church, converted to Protestantism as a free church from the Catholic Apostolic Church. The church has existed since 1879 in Germany and since 1897 in the Netherlands...
        • United Apostolic Church
          United Apostolic Church
          The member churches of the United Apostolic Church are independent communities in the tradition of the catholic-apostolic revival movement which started at the beginning of the 19th century in England and Scotland....

      • Old Apostolic Church
        Old Apostolic Church
        The Old Apostolic Church is a Christian religious community, with historical roots in the Catholic Apostolic Church and the New Apostolic Church...

      • Restored Apostolic Mission Church
        Restored Apostolic Mission Church
        The Restored Apostolic Mission Church was a bible-believing, chiliastic church society in the Netherlands, Germany, South Africa and Australia. It came forth from the Catholic Apostolic Congregation at Hamburg that separated itself from the mother-church in 1863...


    Pentecostalism


    *Assemblies of God
    Assemblies of God
    The Assemblies of God , officially the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, is a group of over 140 autonomous but loosely-associated national groupings of churches which together form the world's largest Pentecostal denomination...
    • Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)
      Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)
      The Church of God, with headquarters in Cleveland, Tennessee, is a Pentecostal Christian denomination. With over seven million members in over 170 countries, it is one of the largest Pentecostal denominations in the world...

    • Church of God of Prophecy
      Church of God of Prophecy
      The Church of God of Prophecy is a Christian denomination with beliefs and principles similar to Pentecostal Holiness Christian faith. It is one of five Church of God bodies headquartered in Cleveland, Tennessee that descended from a small meeting of believers who gathered at the Barney Creek...

    • Apostolic Church (denomination)
    • Elim Pentecostal Church
      Elim Pentecostal Church
      The Elim Pentecostal Church is a UK-based Pentecostal Christian denomination.-History:George Jeffreys , a Welshman, founded the Elim Pentecostal Church in Monaghan, Ireland in 1915. Jeffreys was an evangelist with a Welsh Congregational church background. He was converted at age 15 during the...

    • New Life Churches
      New Life Churches
      New Life Churches International is a Pentecostal Christian church denomination that was formally established in New Zealand in the 1960s. It was led for many years by Rob Wheeler, a New Zealand Evangelist and Peter Morrow, an Australian evangelist...



    • Apostolic Faith Church
    • Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa
      Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa
      The Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa is a classical Pentecostal Christian denomination in South Africa. With 1.2 million adherents, it is South Africa's largest Pentecostal church. Dr. Isak Burger has led the AFM as president since 1996 when the white and black branches of the church were...

    • Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
      Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
      The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada is a Pentecostal Christian denomination and the largest evangelical church in Canada. It reports 234,385 adherents and 1,077 member congregations throughout Canada...

    • Believers Church
      Believers Church
      Believers Church is an Indian Christian church. It has a bible college in Solan and hospitals at Mala & Konni, in Kerala.Believers Church is active in other continents and has well established presence in as many as 17 countries, reaching out both to the developmentally marginalized and those in...

    • Charisma Christian Church
      Charisma Christian Church
      Charisma Christian Church is a French evangelical church, created in Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, in 1989 by Portuguese pastor Nuno Pedro, a former member of Assemblies of God...

    • Christ Gospel Churches International
      Christ Gospel Churches International
      Christ Gospel Church is a fundamentalist, Pentecostal Christian denomination. It was founded in the 1950s by Reverend Bernice R. Hicks and fellow believers starting in a small Christian mission in Louisville, Kentucky...

    • Christian City Churches
      Christian City Churches
      C3 Church Global, formerly known as Christian City Church International , is a Charismatic church movement founded by Pastors Phil Pringle and Christine Pringle. The first church was established at Dee Why on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia, and is now located in Oxford Falls...

    • Christian Church of North America
      Christian Church of North America
      The International Fellowship of Christian Assemblies , formerly known as the Christian Church of North America , is a North American Pentecostal denomination of Christians. Central offices are located in Transfer, Pennsylvania. Ministries of the church include Benevolence, Home Missions, FOCUS,...

    • Christian Congregation of Brazil
      Christian Congregation of Brazil
      The Christian Congregation in Brazil is an evangelical denomination founded in that country by the Italian-American missionary Luigi Francescon .-History:...

    • Christian Outreach Centre
      Christian Outreach Centre
      Christian Outreach Centre is an international movement of churches founded in 1974 by former Methodist minister Clark Taylor.-History:...

    • Christian Revival Crusade
    • Church of God (Charleston, Tennessee)
      Church of God (Charleston, Tennessee)
      The Church of God or TCOG is a Holiness-Pentecostal movement based in the United States. The church's actual name is The Church of God; however, the parenthetical phrase Charleston, Tennessee is added to distinguish it from similar sounding organizations. The Church of God was organized in 1993...

    • Church of God (Chattanooga)
      Church of God (Chattanooga)
      The Church of God is a Pentecostal Holiness Christian denomination located mostly in the Southeastern United States. Its origins can be traced to a small meeting of Christians at the Barney Creek Meeting House in Monroe County, Tennessee in 1886...

    • Church of God (Full Gospel) in India
      Church of God (Full Gospel) in India
      The Church of God in India is the registered name of the branch in India of the Church of God .-Beginnings:...

    • Church of God (Huntsville, Alabama)
      Church of God (Huntsville, Alabama)
      The Church of God is a Pentecostal holiness body of Christians, once based in Huntsville, Alabama.The Church of God shares a common history with the Church of God of Prophecy up until their division in 1943. The Church of God was led by Ambrose J. Tomlinson until his death...

    • The Church of God (Jerusalem Acres)
      The Church of God (Jerusalem Acres)
      The Church of God is a holiness Pentecostal body that descends from the Christian Union movement of Richard Spurling, A. J. Tomlinson and others...

    • Church of God by Faith
      Church of God by Faith
      The Church of God by Faith is a Christian denomination in the United States.-History:The Church of God By Faith, Inc. was founded in 1914 in Jacksonville, Florida by Crawford Bright, John Bright, Aaron Matthews, Sr. and Nathaniel Scippio. In 1922 an assembly was held in Alachua, Florida, a charter...

    • The Church of God for All Nations
      The Church of God for All Nations
      The Church of God for All Nations is a theocratic Pentecostal holiness body of Christians.Samuel Doffee, born February 2, 1931 and died April 23, 2010, formed The Church of God for All Nations in 1981. Doffee had been previously associated with the Church of God of Prophecy and The Church of God ,...

    • Church of God, House of Prayer
      Church of God, House of Prayer
      The Church of God, House of Prayer is a Pentecostal holiness body of Christians.-History:The Church of God, House of Prayer, founded in 1939 by Harrison W. Poteat and incorporated in 1966, is doctrinally similar to the Church of God . They are Trinitarian and Arminian in theology, holding a...

    • Church of God in Christ
      Church of God in Christ
      The Church of God in Christ is a Pentecostal Holiness Christian denomination with a predominantly African-American membership. With nearly five million members in the United States and 12,000 congregations, it is the largest Pentecostal church and the fifth largest Christian church in the U.S....

    • Church of God Mountain Assembly
      Church of God Mountain Assembly
      The Church of God, Mountain Assembly is a holiness pentecostal Christian body formed in 1906, with roots in the late 19th century American holiness movement and early 20th century Pentecostal revival...

    • Church of God of the Original Mountain Assembly
      Church of God of the Original Mountain Assembly
      The Church of God of the Original Mountain Assembly is a small holiness Pentecostal Christian body with roots in the late 19th century American holiness movement and early 20th century Pentecostal revival...

    • Church of God of the Union Assembly
      Church of God of the Union Assembly
      The Church of God of the Union Assembly is a small Holiness church which was organized in 1920 in Walker County, Georgia by dissidents from the Church of God Mountain Assembly. Its primary numerical strength appears to lie in the North Georgia and East Tennessee areas.The Founder of the Church of...

    • Church of God with Signs Following
      Church of God with Signs Following
      The Church of God with Signs Following is the name applied to Pentecostal Holiness churches that practice snake handling and drinking poison in worship services, based on an interpretation of the following biblical passage:...

    • Church of the Foursquare Gospel
    • Church of the Little Children of Jesus Christ
      Church of the Little Children of Jesus Christ
      The Church of the Little Children of Jesus Christ is a small seventh-day Sabbatarian Pentecostal body of Christians in the United States and Canada.-Faith and Practice:...

    • Congregational Holiness Church
      Congregational Holiness Church
      The Congregational Holiness Church is a Pentecostal Church that was formed in 1921.-History:The Congregational Holiness Church shares the early history of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, from which it withdrew. In 1920 a schism came into the Pentecostal Holiness Church over the...

    • CRC Churches International
      CRC Churches International
      CRC Churches International is a Pentecostal Protestant Christian denomination based in Australia.-External links:*...

    • Deeper Life Bible Church
    • Destiny Church
    • Evangelical Pentecostal Church of Besançon
      Evangelical Pentecostal Church of Besançon
      The Evangelical Missionary Church of Besançon , formerly known as the Evangelical Pentecostal Church of Besançon and The Mission, is a Christian movement established in Besançon, France, in December 1963...

    • Every Nation Churches
    • Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas
      Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas
      The Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas is a predominantly African-American Holiness-Pentecostal Christian denomination based in the United States...

    • Free Apostolic Church of Pentecost
      Free Apostolic Church of Pentecost
      The Free Apostolic Church of Pentecost is the biggest Greek pentecostal church. Founded by Dr. Leonidas Feggos in 1965, it now counts more than 140 churches, and over than 20,000 members in Greece. The Free Apostolic Church of Pentecost has churches and missions also in Cyprus, Albania, Bulgaria,...

    • Full Gospel Pentecostal church
    • Foursquare gospel church
    • God is Love Pentecostal Church
      God is Love Pentecostal Church
      The God is Love Pentecostal Church or Igreja Pentecostal Deus é Amor is a Brazilian-based Pentecostal denomination. It is considered part of the second wave of Pentecostalism in Brazil....

    • Holiness Baptist Association
      Holiness Baptist Association
      The Holiness Baptist Association is a holiness body of Christians with Baptist historical roots.-Holiness movement:In 19th century America, the Holiness movement developed out the "new measures" and teachings of revivalist Charles Grandison Finney, and the Methodist emphasis of the Wesleyan...

    • Indian Pentecostal Church of God
      Indian Pentecostal Church of God
      The Indian Pentecostal Church of God is the largest indigenous Pentecostal movement in India, with its headquarters at Hebron, Kumbanad, Kerala, India. The movement was established in 1924 and registered on 9 December 1935 at Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, under the Government of India.K. C...

    • International Circle of Faith
      International Circle of Faith
      International Circle of Faith is a Christian grouping, which is active in different countries including Nigeria. It is partly pentecostal. Its presiding bishop and founder is Bernie L. Wade. Its headquarters are in Louisville, Kentucky, United States...

    • International Pentecostal Church of Christ
      International Pentecostal Church of Christ
      The International Pentecostal Church of Christ is a Pentecostal denomination formed in 1976 by the merger of two Pentecostal organizations....

    • International Pentecostal Holiness Church
      International Pentecostal Holiness Church
      The International Pentecostal Holiness Church or simply Pentecostal Holiness Church is a Pentecostal Christian denomination founded in 1911 with the merger of two older denominations. Traditionally centered in the Southeastern United States, particularly the Carolinas and Georgia, the Pentecostal...

    • Mission of Full Gospel - Christian Open Door
      Mission of Full Gospel - Christian Open Door
      The Mission of Full Gospel - Christian Open Door [COD] is a French Evangelical church whose main place of worship is located in Mulhouse. It is the second largest Protestant church in France, with over 2,200 members, and is frequently considered a megachurch as 1,500 members regularly attend the...

    • Open Bible Standard Churches
      Open Bible Standard Churches
      right|thumb | OBSC Pacific Office in [[Eugene, Oregon]]The Open Bible Standard Churches or Open Bible Churches is an association of Pentecostal churches with headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. Open Bible Churches is affiliated with , an accredited Bible college in Eugene, Oregon...

    • Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
      Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
      The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada is a Pentecostal Christian denomination and the largest evangelical church in Canada. It reports 234,385 adherents and 1,077 member congregations throughout Canada...

    • Pentecostal Church of Indonesia
    • Pentecostal Church of God
      Pentecostal Church of God
      The Pentecostal Church of God is a trinitarian Pentecostal Christian denomination headquartered in Joplin, Missouri, United States. As of 2006, there were 117,000 members and 2,870 clergy in 1,170 churches in the United States. Sixty churches and missions exist among the Native Americans...

    • Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church
      Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church
      The Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church is a church group in the southern United States, best thought of as Pentecostal rather than Baptist...

    • The Pentecostal Mission
      The Pentecostal Mission
      The Pentecostal Mission or New Testament Church formerly known as Ceylon Pentecostal Mission , is a pentecostal denomination which originated in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. The international headquarters is now situated in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India...

    • Pentecostal Missionary Church of Christ (4th Watch)
      Pentecostal Missionary Church of Christ (4th Watch)
      Pentecostal Missionary Church of Christ is a worldwide Pentecostal Missionary Christian denomination founded by Arsenio T. Ferriol in 1972 in the Philippines. The PMCC 4th Watch has also expanded overseas with the establishment of foreign churches in Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America and...

    • Potter's House Christian Fellowship
      Potter's House Christian Fellowship
      The Potter's House Christian Fellowship is a Christian Pentecostal church organization founded by Pastor Wayman Mitchell in Prescott, Arizona in 1970. The official organization title is Christian Fellowship Ministries or CFM....

    • Redeemed Christian Church of God
      Redeemed Christian Church of God
      The Redeemed Christian Church of God is a Nigeria-based Pentecostal Holiness ministry.-History:The RCCG was founded by Nigerian pastor Josiah Akindayomi...

    • Revival Centres International
      Revival Centres International
      The Revival Centres International is a Pentecostal Church, with its headquarters in Melbourne, Australia, it has approximately 300 centres in 22 countries including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Fiji, Italy, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Malawi, the United Kingdom and the United States of America...

    • Sharon Fellowship Church
    • The Revival Fellowship
      The Revival Fellowship
      The Revival Fellowship is a Pentecostal church based in Australia.The Revival Fellowship has assemblies in Australia, Bali, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Czech Republic, Fiji, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Côte d'Ivoire, Japan, Kenya, the...

    • United Gospel Tabernacles
      United Gospel Tabernacles
      United Gospel Tabernacles is a non-denominational fellowship, most closely associated with the Pentecostal faith of the Christian religion. It is a missions based fellowship, currently operating in North America, South America, Europe, and Africa...

    • United Holy Church of America
      United Holy Church of America
      The United Holy Church of America, Inc. is a predominantly Black Pentecostal Holiness Christian denomination. International headquarters are located in Greensboro, North Carolina. The UHC of A consists of 516 churches, 17 districts, and 8 territories...


    Charismatics



    • Association of Vineyard Churches
      Association of Vineyard Churches
      The Association of Vineyard Churches, also known as the Vineyard Movement, is a neocharismatic evangelical Christian denomination with over 1,500 affiliated churches worldwide....

    • Calvary Chapel
      Calvary Chapel
      Calvary Chapel is an evangelical association of Christian churches with over one thousand congregations worldwide. Calvary Chapel also maintains a number of radio stations around the world and operates many local Calvary Chapel Bible College programs. It presents itself as a "fellowship of...

    • Blessed Church http://blessed.org.my/
    • Charismatic Episcopal Church
      Charismatic Episcopal Church
      The Charismatic Episcopal Church, more officially known as the International Communion of the Charismatic Episcopal Church , is an international Christian denomination established as an autocephalous communion in 1992...

    • City Harvest Church
      City Harvest Church
      City Harvest Church or CHC is a non-denominational megachurch in Singapore with an average of 23,256 attendees in the month of December 2010....

    • Faith Christian Fellowship International
      Faith Christian Fellowship International
      Faith Christian Fellowship International is an organization of Pentecostal Christian churches and ministries founded in 1977 in the United States by Buddy Harrison and his wife Pat Harrison....

    • Every Nation
      Every Nation
      Every Nation Churches is an organization of non-denominational Christian churches. Its name embodies its goal of reaching "every nation in our generation" with the gospel....
  • Full Gospel
    Full Gospel
    The term Full Gospel is often used as a synonym for Pentecostalism, a Protestant movement originating in the 19th century. Early Pentecostals saw their teachings on baptism with the Holy Spirit, spiritual gifts, and divine healing as a return to the doctrines and power of the Apostolic Age...

  • Jesus Army
    Jesus Army
    The Jesus Army is the identity that the Jesus Fellowship Church uses in its outreach and street-based work. It is a neocharismatic evangelical Christian movement based in the United Kingdom, that is part of the British New Church Movement....

  • Ministries of His Glory
    Ministries of His Glory
    Ministries of His Glory is a large-scale Christian organization that encompasses more than 90 churches in Central America. It is based out of the Cathedral of His Glory in Greensboro, North Carolina and its sister church La Igle in San Miguel, Sacatepéquez, Guatemala. The Ministries of His Glory...

  • Ministries Without Borders
    Ministries Without Borders
    Ministries Without Borders is an Evangelical neocharismatic Apostolic network of nearly 50 Christian churches, that forms part of the British New Church Movement. It is led by Keri Jones, brother of the late Bryn Jones.-History:...

  • New Frontiers
    Newfrontiers
    Newfrontiers is a neocharismatic apostolic ministry network of evangelical, charismatic churches founded by Terry Virgo. It forms part of the British New Church Movement, which began in the late 50s and 60s combining features of Pentecostalism with British evangelicalism...

  • Sovereign Grace Ministries
    Sovereign Grace Ministries
    Sovereign Grace Ministries is a group of Reformed, neocharismatic, Evangelical, restorationist, Christian churches primarily located in North America. It has been described as an apostolic network...

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    Neo-Charismatic Churches

    • Bible Christian Mission
      Bible Christian Mission
      Bible Christian Mission was a Protestant Christian missionary society that sent workers to countries such as China during the late Qing Dynasty.- See also:*Protestant missionary societies in China during the 19th Century*Timeline of Chinese history...

    • Church on the Rock- International
      Church on the Rock- International
      Church on the Rock-International, also known as the Church on the Rock or COTRI, is a neocharismatic evangelical Christian denomination...

    • Local churches
    • Destiny Church Groningen
      Destiny Church Groningen
      Destiny Church Groningen is a neo-charismatic church denomination which was founded in 1992 in Groningen, the Netherlands, by Johan and Tessa Proost.- Origin :Destiny Church follows a Charismatic and Apostolic interpretation of Biblical principles...
  • Born Again Movement
  • New Life Fellowship Association
    New Life Fellowship Association
    New Life Fellowship Association, commonly known as New Life Fellowship , is a group of neocharismatic, Evangelical, Christian Churches primarily located in India....

  • True Jesus Church
    True Jesus Church
    The True Jesus Church is a non-denominational Christian church that originated in Beijing, China, in 1917. The current elected chairman of the TJC International Assembly is Preacher Yong-Ji Lin. Today, there are approximately 2.5 million members in fifty three countries and six continents...

  • Jimmy's Followers
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    African Initiated Churches


    • Apostles of Johane Marauke
    • Christ Apostolic Miracle Ministry
      Christ Apostolic Miracle Ministry
      The Christ Apostolic Miracle Ministry is an evangelical Christian church founded in 1997 by Pastor Paul OkikiJesu. It is based in the Lagos State of Nigeria where OkikiJesu had his conversion experience. Once a Muslim cleric, OkikiJesu claims to have became divinely inspired to follow the message...

    • Celestial Church of Christ
      Celestial Church of Christ
      The Celestial Church of Christ is an African Initiated Church founded by the Rev. Samuel Biléhou Joseph Oschoffa on 29 September 1947 in Porto-Novo, Benin...

    • Christ Apostolic Church
      Christ Apostolic Church
      Christ Apostolic Church is the first Aladura Pentecostal church present in Nigeria and other countries. It has come into existence in the first half of the...

    • Church of the Lord (Aladura)
      Church of the Lord (Aladura)
      The Church of the Lord is an African Initiated Church founded by the first Primate and Late Prophet Dr. Josiah Olunowo Ositelu in 1925, but inaugurated in 1930 in Ogere-Remo, Shagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria; Reference: Journey So Far, ISBN 3-8258-6087-7; Publication - TCLAW Publishers, 2009."Aladura"...
  • Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim
    Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim
    The Eternal Sacred Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim is the first African initiated church established in 1925 by Moses Orimolade Tunolase. The church was born out of the Anglican church community among the Yoruba people in Western Nigeria.-History:...

  • Kimbanguist Church
  • The African Church
    The African Church
    The African Church was established in Nigeria in 1901. It was established after strong disagreements arose between the European leadership of the Anglican Church and the native African leadership...

  • Zion Christian Church
    Zion Christian Church
    The Zion Christian Church is one of the largest African initiated churches in southern Africa, with members belonging to ZCC star and members belonging to the saint Engenas ZCC...

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    United and uniting churches


    Churches which are the result of a merger between distinct denominational churches. Churches are listed here when their disparate heritage marks them as inappropriately listed in the particular categories above.
    • China Christian Council
      China Christian Council
      The China Christian Council or CCC was founded in 1980 as an umbrella organization for all Protestant churches in the People's Republic of China with Bishop K. H. Ting as its president. It works to provide theological education and the publication of Bibles , hymnals , and other religious...

    • Church of Bangladesh
      Church of Bangladesh
      The Church of Bangladesh is a church of the Anglican Communion in Bangladesh. It is a united church formed by the union of various Christian churches in the region.The Church of Bangladesh came into being as the outcome of the separation from Pakistan...

    • Church of Pakistan
      Church of Pakistan
      The Church of Pakistan is a united church in Pakistan, which is part of the Anglican Communion and a member church of the World Methodist Council. It was established in 1970 with a union of Anglicans, Scottish Presbyterians , Methodists, and Lutherans. It is the only United Church in the South...

    • Church of North India
      Church of North India
      The Church of North India , the dominant Protestant denomination in northern India, is a united church established on 29 November 1970 by bringing together the main Protestant churches working in northern India...

    • Church of South India
      Church of South India
      The Church of South India is the successor of the Church of England in India. It came into being in 1947 as a union of Anglican and Protestant churches in South India. With a membership of over 3.8 million, it is India's second largest Christian church after the Roman Catholic Church in India...

    • Evangelical Church in Germany
      Evangelical Church in Germany
      The Evangelical Church in Germany is a federation of 22 Lutheran, Unified and Reformed Protestant regional church bodies in Germany. The EKD is not a church in a theological understanding because of the denominational differences. However, the member churches share full pulpit and altar...

    • Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren
      Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren
      The Protestant Church of Czech Brethren , was formed in 1918 in Czechoslovakia through the unification of the Protestant churches of the Lutheran and Reformed confessions...

    • Mar Thoma Church
      Mar Thoma Church
      The Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church also known as the Mar Thoma Church is a Christian denomination based in the state of Kerala in southwestern India. It has an entirely different identity when compared with other Churches in India. Most Christian churches around the world are divided into...
  • Protestant Church in the Netherlands
    Protestant Church in the Netherlands
    The Protestant Church in the Netherlands is the largest Protestant Christian denomination in the Netherlands. With 2,000 congregations and a membership of some 1.8 million , it is the second largest church in the Netherlands after the Roman Catholic Church.It was founded 1 May 2004 as a merger of...

  • St. Thomas Evangelical Church
    St. Thomas Evangelical Church
    St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India is an Evangelical, Episcopal denomination based in Kerala, India. It derives from a schism in the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church in 1961, and traces its ancestry before then back almost 2,000 years. STECI holds that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant...

  • United Church of Canada
    United Church of Canada
    The United Church of Canada is a Protestant Christian denomination in Canada. It is the largest Protestant church and, after the Roman Catholic Church, the second-largest Christian church in Canada...

  • United Church of Christ
    United Church of Christ
    The United Church of Christ is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination primarily in the Reformed tradition but also historically influenced by Lutheranism. The Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches united in 1957 to form the UCC...

  • United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands
    United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands
    The United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands is a united church formed on 1 December 1965 as the "United Church of Jamaica and Grand Cayman" by bringing the Protestant denominations "Presbyterian Church in Jamaica" and "Congregational Union of Jamaica" together...

  • United Church in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
    United Church in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
    The United Church in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands is a merged denomination dating from 1968 consisting of the former London Missionary Society , the relatively marginal Presbyterian church and the Methodist mission The United Church in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands is a...

  • United Church of Christ in the Philippines
    United Church of Christ in the Philippines
    The United Church of Christ in the Philippines is a Christian denomination in the Philippines...

  • Uniting Church in Australia
    Uniting Church in Australia
    The Uniting Church in Australia was formed on 22 June 1977 when many congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, the Presbyterian Church of Australia and the Congregational Union of Australia came together under the Basis of Union....

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    Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)



    • Friends United Meeting
      Friends United Meeting
      Friends United Meeting is an association of twenty-six yearly meetings of the Religious Society of Friends in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. In addition there are several individual Monthly meetings and organizations that are members of FUM...

    • Evangelical Friends International
      Evangelical Friends International
      Evangelical Friends Church International is a branch of Quaker yearly meetings around the world that profess evangelical Christian beliefs.- History :...

    • Central Yearly Meeting of Friends
      Central yearly meeting of friends
      Central Yearly Meeting of Friends is a yearly meeting of a small group of Friends churches, located in Indiana, Arkansas and Ohio. Central Yearly Meeting of Friends is part of the Conservative Holiness Movement, and subscribes to the Orthodox branch of Quakerism...

    • Conservative Friends
      Conservative Friends
      Conservative Friends refers to members of a certain branch of the Religious Society of Friends . In the United States of America Conservative Friends belong to three Yearly Meetings—Iowa Yearly Meeting , North Carolina Yearly Meeting , and Ohio Yearly Meeting...

    • Ireland Yearly Meeting
      Ireland Yearly Meeting
      The Ireland Yearly Meeting is the umbrella body for the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland. It is one of many Yearly meetings of Friends around the world....

    • Convergent Friends
    • Friends General Conference
      Friends General Conference
      Friends General Conference is a North American Quaker organization primarily serving the Quaker yearly and monthly meetings in the United States and Canada that choose to be members...

    • Beanite Quakerism
      Beanite Quakerism
      Beanite Quakerism refers to the independent tradition of Quakerism started by Quaker ministers Joel and Hannah Bean in the western United States in the late 19th century, and in a more specific sense refers to the three Western yearly meetings that spring from that tradition.The Beans were...



    The Religious Society of Friends is historically considered a Protestant Christian denomination. While members and attenders of Friends United Meeting, Evangelical Friends International, Central Yearly Meeting of Friends, Independent Evangelical Friends Yearly Meetings, Conservative Friends, Ireland Yearly Meeting, and of the Convergent Friends, would all consider themselves to be orthodox Christians; most Liberal Quakers today would consider their faith to be a distinct, non-Protestant form of religious faith. Many members and attenders of Friends General Conference, of the Beanite Yearly Meetings, and of all other Unprogrammed Quaker Yearly Meetings, would all consider themselves to be Liberal Quaker in belief and practice, and follow one or more of the following lines of spiritual thought in today's world: 1). Christian
    Christian
    A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

    , 2). Unitarian
    Unitarianism
    Unitarianism is a Christian theological movement, named for its understanding of God as one person, in direct contrast to Trinitarianism which defines God as three persons coexisting consubstantially as one in being....

    , 3). Universalist, 4). Theist, 5). Humanist
    Humanist
    Humanist may refer to:* A proponent or practitioner of humanism, which has several distinct senses, which are listed at Humanism and at Humanism * Humanist sans-serif, a classification of the sans-serif typeface...

    , 6). Atheist, 7). Agnostic.

    Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement


    • Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
      Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
      The Christian Church is a Mainline Protestant denomination in North America. It is often referred to as The Christian Church, The Disciples of Christ, or more simply as The Disciples...

    • Churches of Christ
    • Churches of Christ (non-institutional)
  • Churches of Christ in Australia
    Churches of Christ in Australia
    The Churches of Christ in Australia is a Christian movement in Australia. It is part of the Restoration Movement with historical influences from the United States of America and the United Kingdom....

  • Christian churches and churches of Christ
  • International Churches of Christ
    International Churches of Christ
    The International Churches of Christ is a body of co-operating non-denominational, religiously conservative, and racially integrated Christian congregations, an offshoot from the Mainline Churches of Christ. This group is known for and has a long history of showing charity to the poor...

     (Boston Movement)
  • Evangelical Christian Church in Canada
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    Millerites and comparable groups




    Sabbath-Keeping Churches, Adventist

    • Adventist Church of Promise
      Adventist Church of Promise
      The Adventist Church of Promise is an evangelical Christian denomination which is both Sabbatarian Adventist and classical Pentecostal in its doctrine and worship...

    • Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church
      Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church
      The Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church is a Christian movement formed by a small group that broke off of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1988 and officially became a Church in 1991...

    • General Conference of the Church of God (Seventh-Day)
      General Conference of the Church of God (Seventh-Day)
      The General Conference of the Church of God , or simply Church of God or CoG7, is a seventh-day Sabbath-keeping Christian denomination...

    • Seventh-day Adventist Church
      Seventh-day Adventist Church
      The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ...

    • Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement
      Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement
      The Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement is a Protestant Christian denomination, part of the Sabbatarian adventist movement, and formed as the result of a schism within the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Europe during World War I over the position its leadership took on proper Sabbath observance...


    Sabbath-Keeping Churches, Non-Adventist

    • Branch Davidians
    • Church of God International (USA)
      Church of God International (USA)
      The Church of God, International is a seventh-day Sabbatarian Christian church currently headquartered in Tyler, Texas, USA, which was founded by former members of the Worldwide Church of God....

    • Church of the Great God
      Church of the Great God
      The Church of the Great God is one of the churches to form in the wake of the Worldwide Church of God's major doctrinal revisions of the 1980s and 1990s. The CGG, headquartered in Fort Mill, South Carolina, decided upon a quiet course of dissent in relation to the changes in the parent church's...

    • Intercontinental Church of God
    • Living Church of God
      Living Church of God
      The Living Church of God is one of the church groups formed by followers of the teachings of the late Herbert W. Armstrong. It was formed as a series of major doctrinal changes were introduced in the Worldwide Church of God after Armstrong's death in 1986...

    • Philadelphia Church of God
      Philadelphia Church of God
      The Philadelphia Church of God is an international church based in Edmond, Oklahoma. The Philadelphia Church of God was founded by Gerald Flurry and his assistant pastor John Amos and incorporated in the United States on December 20, 1989....


    Seventh-Day Baptists
    Seventh-Day Evangelist Church
    Seventh-Day Evangelist Church
    The Seventh-Day Evangelist Church is a Christian denomination that recently grew out of the teachings that were embraced by a group of Sudanese people who formerly joined the Adventist Church. The church was founded in 1985 in South Sudan under the leadership of Moses B. Matthew. He was only 15...
    • Seventh Day Christians - Norway (Syvende dags Kristne)
    • True Jesus Church
      True Jesus Church
      The True Jesus Church is a non-denominational Christian church that originated in Beijing, China, in 1917. The current elected chairman of the TJC International Assembly is Preacher Yong-Ji Lin. Today, there are approximately 2.5 million members in fifty three countries and six continents...

    • United Church of God
      United Church of God
      The United Church of God, an International Association is a Christian denomination based in the United States with members in various countries around the world...

    • United Seventh-Day Brethren
      United Seventh-Day Brethren
      The United Seventh-Day Brethren is a small sabbatarian Adventist body.In 1947, several individuals and two independent congregations within the Church of God Adventist movement came together to form the United Seventh-Day Brethren...

    Sunday Adventists

    • Advent Christian Church
      Advent Christian Church
      The Advent Christian Church is a "first-day" body of Adventist Christians founded on the teachings of William Miller.- William Miller :Though the first Advent Christian Association was founded in Salem, Massachusetts in 1860, the church's formation is rooted in the adventist teachings began by...

    • Church of God General Conference (Abrahamic Faith)
    • Church of the Blessed Hope
      Church of the Blessed Hope
      The Church of the Blessed Hope is a small first-day Adventist Christian body.-Background:...

       (aka Church of God of the Abrahamic Faith)

    Sacred Name Groups

    • Assemblies of Yahweh
      Assemblies of Yahweh
      The Assemblies of Yahweh is a nonprofit religious organization with its international headquarters in Bethel, Pennsylvania. The organization developed independently out of a radio ministry begun by Elder Jacob O. Meyer in 1966...

    • House of Yahweh
      House of Yahweh
      The House of Yahweh is a religious movement based in Abilene, Texas. Its Pastor and Overseer is Yisrayl Hawkins . The group has had membership of people from around the globe, and welcomes all "who will repent of sin and follow Yahweh's Law." The group has been controversial, and is referred to...

    • New Life Fellowship
    • Jehovah's Witnesses
      Jehovah's Witnesses
      Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. The religion reports worldwide membership of over 7 million adherents involved in evangelism, convention attendance of over 12 million, and annual...

    • Dawn Bible Students Association
      Dawn Bible Students Association
      The Dawn Bible Students Association is a legal entity used by a branch of the Bible Student Movement.It was founded with the intention of becoming a publishing house to begin printing and distributing the first six volumes of the Studies in the Scriptures series that were written by Charles Taze...

    • Assembly of Yahweh
      Assembly of Yahweh
      The Assembly of Yahweh was the first religious organization in the Sacred Name Movement. It was formed in Holt, Michigan, in the 1930s.-Description:...

    • Friends of Man
      Friends of Man
      The Friends of Man are a Christian denomination founded in 1916 by Alexander F.L. Freytag, the former Branch manager of the Swiss Watch Tower Society since 1898...

    • Christian Millennial Fellowship
      Christian Millennial Fellowship
      The Free Bible Students is the branch of the Bible Student movement that discarded most of Watch Tower Society founder Charles Taze Russell's writings as error. The Free Bible Students form independent, autonomous assemblies and the name, "Free", is given to them to distinguish them from Bible...

    • Pastoral Bible Institute
      Pastoral Bible Institute
      The Pastoral Bible Institute was founded by a small group who were part of the Bible Student movement, a Christian denomination following Millerite Adventist notions guided by principles expounded by Pastor Charles Taze Russell...


    British-Israelism


    • British-Israel-World Federation
      British-Israel-World Federation
      The British-Israel-World Federation is an organization that was founded in London July 3 1919, although its roots can be traced back to the 19th century. At one time this organization enjoyed the patronage of members of the British Establishment including HRH Princess Alice of Athlone, the Duke of...

    • Christian Identity
      Christian Identity
      Christian Identity is a label applied to a wide variety of loosely affiliated believers and churches with a racialized theology. Many promote a Eurocentric interpretation of Christianity.According to Chester L...

       and other white separatist/supremacist
      White supremacy
      White supremacy is the belief, and promotion of the belief, that white people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds. The term is sometimes used specifically to describe a political ideology that advocates the social and political dominance by whites.White supremacy, as with racial...

       groups
      • Church of Jesus Christ-Christian
        Church of Jesus Christ-Christian
        The Church of Jesus Christ–Christian is a white supremacist church, which was founded in 1946 by Ku Klux Klan organizer Wesley A. Swift. Swift was the son of a Methodist Episcopal Church, South minister and is considered a significant figure in the early years of the Christian Identity movement in...

         (Aryan Nations
        Aryan Nations
        Aryan Nations is a white supremacist religious organization originally based in Hayden Lake, Idaho. Richard Girnt Butler founded the group in the 1970s, as an arm of the Christian Identity organization Church of Jesus Christ–Christian...

        )
      • Kingdom Identity Ministries
        Kingdom Identity Ministries
        Kingdom Identity Ministries is a Christian Identity outreach ministry based in Harrison, Arkansas, advocating racism, anti-Semitism and execution of homosexuals. It functions primarily as a distributor of Identity-oriented books, tracts and audiotapes. Its catalog includes works by Wesley Swift,...

      • LaPorte Church of Christ
        LaPorte Church of Christ
        LaPorte Church of Christ is an independent church in Laporte, Colorado, led until 2011 by Pastor Peter J. Peters, who proclaimed that Europeans comprise the ten lost tribes of Israel and that contemporary Jews are satanic impostors and the descendants of the Biblical Esau -- the brother and...
  • The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord
    The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord
    The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord was a radical Christian Identity organization formed in 1971 in the small community of Elijah in southern Missouri, United States.- Leadership :...

  • Revival Centres International
    Revival Centres International
    The Revival Centres International is a Pentecostal Church, with its headquarters in Melbourne, Australia, it has approximately 300 centres in 22 countries including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Fiji, Italy, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Malawi, the United Kingdom and the United States of America...

  • The Revival Fellowship
    The Revival Fellowship
    The Revival Fellowship is a Pentecostal church based in Australia.The Revival Fellowship has assemblies in Australia, Bali, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Czech Republic, Fiji, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Côte d'Ivoire, Japan, Kenya, the...

  • Armstrongism
    Armstrongism
    Armstrongism refers to the teachings and doctrines of Herbert W. Armstrong while leader of the Worldwide Church of God , and is professed by him and his followers to be the restored true Gospel of the Bible. Armstrong said they were revealed to him by God during his study of the Bible....

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    Miscellaneous/Other

    • Shakers
      Shakers
      The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, known as the Shakers, is a religious sect originally thought to be a development of the Religious Society of Friends...

    • Associated Gospel Churches
      Associated Gospel Churches
      The Associated Gospel Churches of Canada, commonly known as AGC, is a Canadian evangelical Christian denomination.- Background :The Associated Gospel Churches of Canada can trace its origins to the 1890s, when the AGC began a group of independent churches, in Ontario, Canada, that was joined...

       of Canada (AGC)
    • Believers' Church in India
    • Family International a.k.a. "The Family International", "Family of Love", "The Family"
    • Church of Christ, Instrumental
      Church of Christ, Instrumental
      The Church of Christ, Instrumental, also known as Kelleyites, are a baptistic body of Christians based in central Arkansas.-Names:In the only book written about this group they are called the Church of Christ, Instrumental or Kelleyites. Elder E. J...

       (Kelleyites)
    • Christian Conventions (a.k.a. Two by Twos, The Truth, The Way, etc.)
    • Christian & Missionary Alliance
    • Cooneyites
      Cooneyites
      The Cooneyites are a Protestant sect which split from the Two by Twos, originally called "the Tramps" or "the Go-Preachers" founded by William Irvine, often referred to today as "The Truth" or "Cooneyites". References to the term "Cooneyites" prior to 1928 refer to the group described under Two by...

       (not to be confused with Christian Conventions, above)
    • Eternal Grace
    • Evangelical Church of West Africa
      Evangelical Church of West Africa
      The Evangelical Church of West Afria now called Evangelical Church Winning All is one of the largest Church denominations in Nigeria, reaching about five million people. ECWA is a partner church of the international Christian Mission Organisation: Serving In Mission...

    • Evangelical Covenant Church of America ("Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant")
    • Evangelical Free Church of Canada
      Evangelical Free Church of Canada
      The Evangelical Free Church of Canada is an association of autonomous and interdependent evangelical Christian congregations in Canada. Its home office is located in Langley, British Columbia, on the campus of Trinity Western University...

    • Fellowship of Fundamental Bible Churches
      Fellowship of Fundamental Bible Churches
      The Fellowship of Fundamental Bible Churches is a fellowship of independent autonomous fundamentalist churches established in 1939. It is considered only a fellowship of like-minded churches, rather than a denomination. Local congregations in the fellowship have no financial obligations to the...

    • Grace Movement Churches
  • Great Commission Association
    Great Commission Association
    The Great Commission church movement is a broad term used to describe the entities associated with an evangelical Christian movement formalized in the USA in 1970. The largest of these organizations today is Great Commission Churches . Other associated organizations include Great Commission...

  • Indian Shakers
  • Jesus Movement
    Jesus movement
    The Jesus movement was a movement in Christianity beginning on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s and spreading primarily through North America and Europe, before dying out by the early 1980s. It was the major Christian element within the hippie counterculture,...

  • Methernitha
    Methernitha
    Methernitha refers to two related entities, both founded by Paul Baumann : Methernitha Christian Alliance and Methernitha Cooperative...

  • Metropolitan Community Church
    Metropolitan Community Church
    The Metropolitan Community Church or The Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches is an international Protestant Christian denomination...

    es
  • Native American Church
    Native American Church
    Native American Church, a religious denomination which practices Peyotism or the Peyote religion, originated in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and is the most widespread indigenous religion among Native Americans in the United States...

  • New Frontiers
    Newfrontiers
    Newfrontiers is a neocharismatic apostolic ministry network of evangelical, charismatic churches founded by Terry Virgo. It forms part of the British New Church Movement, which began in the late 50s and 60s combining features of Pentecostalism with British evangelicalism...

     (formerly New Frontiers International)
  • Schwenkfelder Church
    Schwenkfelder Church
    The Schwenkfelder Church is a small American Christian body rooted in the 16th century Protestant Reformation teachings of Caspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig .-History:...

  • Strigolniki
    Strigolniki
    The Strigolniki were followers of the first Russian heretical sect of the middle of the 14th and first half of the 15th century, established in Pskov and later in Novgorod and Tver....

  • Universal Life
    Universal Life
    Universal Life is the name of a controversial new religious movement based in Würzburg, Germany, which is described by members as a part of the new revelation movement, and by critics as a cult...

  • Yehowists
    Yehowists
    Yehowists is a Russian millenarian religious movement founded and led by retired army officer and religious thinker Nikolai Ilyin in the 1840s.-Yehowist theology:Yehowists are strict dualists and believe in the ongoing struggle between two Gods who are equally...

     (aka Yehowists-Ilyinites, Russian Jehovists
  • The Children of God Reformed Church
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    Christian Revival Church


    *Christian Revival Church India
    • Christian Revival Church Nagaland
    • Christian Revival Church Arunachal Pradesh
    • Christian Revival Church Meghalaya
    • Christian Revival Church Assam
    • Christian Revival Church Manipur
    • Christian Revival Church Sikkim
    • Christian Revival Church West Bengal
    • Christian Revival Church Tamil Nadu
    • Christian Revival Church Maharastra
    • Christian Revival Church Uttra Pradesh
    • Christian Revival Church Bihar
  • Christian Revival Church Myanmar
  • Christian Revival Church Nepal
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    Latter Day Saints


    Most Latter Day Saint denominations are derived from the Church of Christ, established by Joseph Smith
    Joseph Smith
    Joseph Smith was founder of what later became known as the Latter Day Saint movement or Mormons.Joseph Smith may also refer to:-Latter Day Saints:* Joseph Smith, Sr. , father of Joseph Smith...

     in 1830. The majority of "Prairie Saint" denominations were established after the death of Smith by the remnants of the Saints who did not go west with Brigham Young
    Brigham Young
    Brigham Young was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877, he founded Salt Lake City, and he served as the first governor of the Utah...

    . Many of which rejected some or most of the 1840s theological developments in favor of 1830s theological understandings and practices. The Rocky Mountain denominations are The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and various sects who broke from it after its settlement in the Rocky Mountains, many breaking after its abandonment of practicing polygamy
    Polygamy
    Polygamy is a marriage which includes more than two partners...

     in 1890. Other denominations are defined by either a belief in Joseph Smith as a prophet
    Prophet
    In religion, a prophet, from the Greek word προφήτης profitis meaning "foreteller", is an individual who is claimed to have been contacted by the supernatural or the divine, and serves as an intermediary with humanity, delivering this newfound knowledge from the supernatural entity to other people...

    , or acceptance of the Book of Mormon
    Book of Mormon
    The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement that adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2600 BC to AD 421. It was first published in March 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr...

     as scripture
    Religious text
    Religious texts, also known as scripture, scriptures, holy writ, or holy books, are the texts which various religious traditions consider to be sacred, or of central importance to their religious tradition...

    . Mormonism
    Mormonism
    Mormonism is the religion practiced by Mormons, and is the predominant religious tradition of the Latter Day Saint movement. This movement was founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. beginning in the 1820s as a form of Christian primitivism. During the 1830s and 1840s, Mormonism gradually distinguished itself...

     is generally considered restorationist, believing that Smith, by inspiration and revelation, restored the original Church of Christ to the earth. Some Latter Day Saint denominations are regarded by other Christians as being nontrinitarian, but generally do not accept that label themselves, in contrast to the groups labeled "nontrinitarian" below.

    The churches within the Latter Day Saint movement are not recognized as an orthodox Christian denomination, and with the exception of Community of Christ, which is a member communion of the National Council of Churches, are usually rejected as Christian by many Protestants. Mormons, however, strongly oppose this rejection.

    "Prairie Saint" denominations

    • Church of Christ (Temple Lot)
      Church of Christ (Temple Lot)
      The Church of Christ is a denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement headquartered in Independence, Missouri on what is known as the Temple Lot. Members of the church have been known colloquially as "Hedrickites", after Granville Hedrick, who was ordained as the church's first leader in July 1863...

       (Hedrickites)
    • Church of Christ with the Elijah Message
      Church of Christ with the Elijah Message
      The Church of Christ "With the Elijah Message," Established Anew 1929 is a denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement, headquartered in Jackson County, Missouri, which split from the Church of Christ in 1943 in a dispute over claimed revelations given to its founder William A. Draves...

    • Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
      Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
      The Church of Jesus Christ is a Christian religious denomination headquartered in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, United States. The Church of Jesus Christ is a Restorationist church and is historically part of the Latter Day Saint movement...

    • Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite)
      Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite)
      The Church of Jesus Christ is a denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement headquartered in Independence, Missouri. This church derives its epithet from its founder, Alpheus Cutler, a member of the Nauvoo High Council and of Joseph Smith's secretive Council of Fifty...

    • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
      Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
      The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is a denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement with around three hundred members as of 1998...
  • Community of Christ
    Community of Christ
    The Community of Christ, known from 1872 to 2001 as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints , is an American-based international Christian church established in April 1830 that claims as its mission "to proclaim Jesus Christ and promote communities of joy, hope, love, and peace"...

    , formerly called Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS) (largest "Prairie Saint" denomination)
  • Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
    Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
    The Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is a denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement. The president of the church is Frederick Niels Larsen, a direct descendant of Joseph Smith, Jr....

  • Independent RLDS / Restoration Branches
    Restoration Branches
    The Restoration Branches movement is a Christian/Latter Day Saint religious sect which was formed in the 1980s by members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in a reaction against the events of the RLDS 1984 world conference...

  • Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
    Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
    The Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is a denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement headquartered in Independence, Missouri...

  • Restored Church of Jesus Christ (Eugene O. Walton)
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    Rocky Mountains denominations

    • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
    • Apostolic United Brethren
      Apostolic United Brethren
      The Apostolic United Brethren is a polygamous Mormon fundamentalist church within the Latter Day Saint movement. The sect is not affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...

    • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) – by far the largest Latter Day Saint denomination
    • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
      Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
      The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is one of the largest Mormon fundamentalist denominations and one of the largest organizations in the United States whose members practice polygamy. The FLDS Church emerged in the early twentieth century when its founding members left...

       (FLDS)
  • Latter Day Church of Christ (Kingston Clan)
  • The True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days
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    Nontrinitarian groups



    Various denominations whose self-understanding denies trinitarian theology held by other Christians.

    Oneness Pentecostalism


    • Affirming Pentecostal Church International
    • Gay Apostolic Pentecostals
      Gay Apostolic Pentecostals
      Gay Apostolic Pentecostals are people who adhere to the beliefs and theology of the Oneness Pentecostal churches, but who identify as LGBT, which is unacceptable in mainline Apostolic churches. Gay Apostolic Pentecostals first began to organize separately from mainline Apostolic churches in 1980 in...

    • Apostolic Assemblies of Christ
      Apostolic Assemblies of Christ
      The Apostolic Assemblies of Christ, Inc. is a predominantly African-American "Oneness Pentecostal" denomination. The Apostolic Assemblies of Christ was organized in 1970 by George Marshall Boone . Previously he had served as a bishop in the Pentecostal Church of the Apostolic Faith...

    • Apostolic Assembly of the Faith in Christ Jesus
      Apostolic Assembly of the Faith in Christ Jesus
      The Apostolic Assembly of the Faith in Christ Jesus is the oldest Spanish-speaking Oneness Pentecostal denomination in the United States. It is also the oldest primarily Hispanic denomination in the world and is also the eighth fastest growing Hispanic denomination...

    • Apostolic Brethren
      Apostolic Brethren
      The Apostolic Brethren were a Christian sect founded in northern Italy in the latter half of the 13th century by Gerard Segarelli, a native of Alzano in the territory of Parma. He was of low birth and without education, applied for membership in the Franciscan order at Parma, and was rejected...

    • Apostolic Church of Pentecost
      Apostolic Church of Pentecost
      The Apostolic Church of Pentecost is a Pentecostal Christian denomination with origins in the Pentecostal revival of the early 20th century. Although multi-national, ACOP has its strongest membership in Canada. In 2002 ACOP reported “approximately 24,000 members in Canada, with 450 ministers and...

    • Apostolic Gospel Church of Jesus Christ
      Apostolic Gospel Church of Jesus Christ
      Apostolic Gospel Church of Jesus Christ is a church in the Oneness Pentecostalism movement that was founded in Bell Gardens, California in 1963 by Donald Abernathy....

    • Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God
      Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God
      The Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God was founded in 1916 as the Ethiopian Overcoming Holy Church of God by the late Bishop W.T. Phillips in Mobile, Alabama...

    • Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ
      Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ
      The Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ is a Oneness Pentecostal Christian denomination formed in 1952 by the merger of the Assemblies of the Church of Jesus Christ, the Jesus Only Apostolic Church of God, and the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The organization describes itself as "a...

    • Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ
      Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ
      The Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ World-Wide was an African-American Oneness Pentecostal denomination started in 1957 in Washington, DC. In 1997, a division over who was the rightful successor to Presiding Bishop and founder Smallwood Edmond Williams occurred...

    • Churches of Jesus Christ International
      Churches of Jesus Christ International
      The Churches of Jesus Christ International is an association of loosely-affiliated Oneness Pentecostal churches with headquarters in Cleveland, Tennessee, United States.-History:...

    • Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith
      Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith
      The Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith is a Oneness Pentecostal church organized in 1919.The Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ, as it is most commonly known, was organized by Robert C. Lawson. Lawson, a protégé of G.T...

    • Pentecostal Assemblies of the World
      Pentecostal Assemblies of the World
      The Pentecostal Assemblies of the World is a Pentecostal Christian denomination. Founded in 1914, it is one of the oldest Oneness Pentecostal organizations in existence. Headquarters are in Indianapolis, Indiana, and The Christian Outlook is the church's official publication...

    • United Pentecostal Church International
      United Pentecostal Church International
      The United Pentecostal Church International is a Pentecostal Christian denomination, headquartered in the St. Louis suburb of Hazelwood, Missouri. It is a part of the Oneness or "Apostolic" portion of the Pentecostal Movement, and was formed in 1945 by a merger of the former Pentecostal Church,...

    Unitarianism and Universalism




    • American Unitarian Conference
      American Unitarian Conference
      The American Unitarian Conference was founded in 2000 by several Unitarian Universalists who felt that the Unitarian Universalist Association had become too theologically liberal and too political. They decided their mission was to promote "classical" Unitarianism, which they argued as being...

      , North America
    • Christian Universalist Association
      Christian Universalist Association
      The Christian Universalist Association, based in Fairfax, Virginia, is an interdenominational organization connecting churches, ministries, and individuals who believe in Christian Universalism. It was founded in 2007 by Rev. Kalen Fristad and Rev. Eric Stetson...

      , US
    • International Council of Unitarians and Universalists
      International Council of Unitarians and Universalists
      The International Council of Unitarians and Universalists is an umbrella organization founded in 1995 bringing together many Unitarians, Universalists and Unitarian Universalists.The size of the member organizations varies widely...
      • Australian and New Zealand Unitarian Universalist Association
      • Canadian Unitarian Council
        Canadian Unitarian Council
        The Canadian Unitarian Council is the national body for Unitarian Universalists in Canada.The CUC is a member of the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists.- Principles and sources :...

      • Deutsche Unitarier Religionsgemeinschaft
        Deutsche Unitarier Religionsgemeinschaft
        Deutsche Unitarier Religionsgemeinschaft was founded in 1876 in Germany's Rheinhessen region under the name Religionsgemeinschaft Freier Protestanten ....

        , Germany
      • European Unitarian Universalists
        European Unitarian Universalists
        The European Unitarian Universalists is a network of English-speaking Unitarian Universalist fellowships and individuals in Western Continental Europe...

      • General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches
        General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches
        The General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches is the umbrella organisation for Unitarian, Free Christian and other liberal religious congregations in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1928, with denominational roots going back to the Great Ejection of 1662...

        , United Kingdom & Ireland
      • Unitarian Universalist Association
        Unitarian Universalist Association
        Unitarian Universalist Association , in full the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in North America, is a liberal religious association of Unitarian Universalist congregations formed by the consolidation in 1961 of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of...

        , US
      • Unitarian Universalist Society of Spain
      • Unitarisk Kirkesamfund
        Unitarisk Kirkesamfund
        Unitarisk Kirkesamfund is the Danish Unitarian Church, founded May 18, 1900 as "Det fri Kirkesamfund" by a group of liberal Christians....

        , Denmark
    • Socinianism
      Socinianism
      Socinianism is a system of Christian doctrine named for Fausto Sozzini , which was developed among the Polish Brethren in the Minor Reformed Church of Poland during the 15th and 16th centuries and embraced also by the Unitarian Church of Transylvania during the same period...

       (extinct as a modern and distinct group)
      • Polish Brethren
        Polish Brethren
        The Polish Brethren were members of the Minor Reformed Church of Poland, a Nontrinitarian Protestant church that existed in Poland from 1565 to 1658...

         (extinct as a modern and distinct group)

    Bible Student groups


    • Christian Millennial Fellowship
      Christian Millennial Fellowship
      The Free Bible Students is the branch of the Bible Student movement that discarded most of Watch Tower Society founder Charles Taze Russell's writings as error. The Free Bible Students form independent, autonomous assemblies and the name, "Free", is given to them to distinguish them from Bible...

    • Dawn Bible Students Association
      Dawn Bible Students Association
      The Dawn Bible Students Association is a legal entity used by a branch of the Bible Student Movement.It was founded with the intention of becoming a publishing house to begin printing and distributing the first six volumes of the Studies in the Scriptures series that were written by Charles Taze...

    • Friends of Man
      Friends of Man
      The Friends of Man are a Christian denomination founded in 1916 by Alexander F.L. Freytag, the former Branch manager of the Swiss Watch Tower Society since 1898...

    • Jehovah's Witnesses
      Jehovah's Witnesses
      Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. The religion reports worldwide membership of over 7 million adherents involved in evangelism, convention attendance of over 12 million, and annual...

    • Laymen's Home Missionary Movement
    • Pastoral Bible Institute
      Pastoral Bible Institute
      The Pastoral Bible Institute was founded by a small group who were part of the Bible Student movement, a Christian denomination following Millerite Adventist notions guided by principles expounded by Pastor Charles Taze Russell...


    Swedenborgianism



    • General Church of the New Jerusalem
      General Church of the New Jerusalem
      The General Church of the New Jerusalem is an international church based in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, and based on the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the theological works of Emanuel Swedenborg...

    • Swedenborgian Church of North America
      Swedenborgian Church of North America
      The Swedenborgian Church in North America . The Administrative Offices of the denomination are located at 11 Highland Avenue, Newton, MA.-Beliefs:...


    Other non-Trinitarians

    • Arianism
      Arianism
      Arianism is the theological teaching attributed to Arius , a Christian presbyter from Alexandria, Egypt, concerning the relationship of the entities of the Trinity and the precise nature of the Son of God as being a subordinate entity to God the Father...

    • Christadelphians
      Christadelphians
      Christadelphians is a Christian group that developed in the United Kingdom and North America in the 19th century...

    • Church of the Blessed Hope
      Church of the Blessed Hope
      The Church of the Blessed Hope is a small first-day Adventist Christian body.-Background:...

    • Church of Christ, Scientist
      Church of Christ, Scientist
      The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded in 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, by Mary Baker Eddy. She was the author of the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Christian Science teaches that the "allness" of God denies the reality of sin, sickness, death, and the material world...

    • Doukhobors ("Spirit-Wrestlers")
    • Arian Catholic Church
    • Iglesia ni Cristo
      Iglesia ni Cristo
      Iglesia ni Cristo also known as INC, is the largest entirely indigenous Christian religious organization that originated from the Philippines and the largest independent church in Asia. Due to a number of similarities, some Protestant writers describe the INC's doctrines as restorationist in...

    • Makuya
      Makuya
      ', also called ' and based at the Tokyo Bible Seminary, is a religious movement in Japan founded in 1948 by Ikurō Teshima. To grasp the inner truth of biblical religion, or the “Love of the Holy Spirit” as Teshima puts it, and to extol this existential love by embodying it and living accordingly is...
  • Molokans
  • Members Church of God International
    Members Church of God International
    The Members Church of God International is an independent Christian organization with headquarters in the Philippines. The Church of God International is colloquially known through its flagship international television program, Ang Dating Daan...

  • Most Holy Church of God in Christ Jesus
    Most Holy Church of God in Christ Jesus
    The Most Holy Church of God in Christ Jesus , is a Christian denomination founded in the Philippines by Bishop Teofilo D. Ora in May 1922....

  • Subbotniks
    Subbotniks
    Subbotniks are one of the Russian religious bodies known under the general name of "Judaizing Christian sects". On the whole, the Subbotniks originally differed probably very little from other Judaizing societies. They first appeared during the reign of Catherine II, toward the end of the...

  • Two by Twos ("Christian Conventions")
  • Unification Church
    Unification Church
    The Unification Church is a new religious movement founded by Korean religious leader Sun Myung Moon. In 1954, the Unification Church was formally and legally established in Seoul, South Korea, as The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity . In 1994, Moon gave the church...

  • Universal Alliance
    Universal Alliance
    The Universal Alliance , formerly known as Universal Christian Church and followers as Christ's Witnesses , is a Christian-oriented new religious movement founded in France in 1952 by Georges Roux, a former postman in the Vaucluse department...

  • The Way International
    The Way International
    The Way International is a non denominational Christian ministry based in New Knoxville, Ohio, with home fellowships located in the United States and in over 30 other countries. It was founded by Victor Paul Wierwille in 1942 as a radio program, and became The Chimes Hour Youth Caravan in 1947, and...

    		•

    New Thought


    The relation of New Thought to Christianity is sometimes murky; some of its adherents see themselves as practicing a true or correct form of Christianity, or as doing what Jesus did, while others, in particular, Religious Science
    Religious Science
    Religious Science, also known as Science of Mind, was established in 1927 by Ernest Holmes and is a spiritual, philosophical and metaphysical religious movement within the New Thought movement. In general, the term "Science of Mind" applies to the teachings, while the term "Religious Science"...

     says "yes and no" to the question of whether it considers itself Christian leaving it to the individual to define themselves.
    • Church of Divine Science
    • Religious Science
      Religious Science
      Religious Science, also known as Science of Mind, was established in 1927 by Ernest Holmes and is a spiritual, philosophical and metaphysical religious movement within the New Thought movement. In general, the term "Science of Mind" applies to the teachings, while the term "Religious Science"...

    • Unity Church
      Unity Church
      Unity, known informally as Unity Church, is a religious movement within the wider New Thought movement and is best known to many through its Daily Word devotional publication...


    Messianic Judaism / Jewish Christians



    • Chosen People Ministries
      Chosen People Ministries
      Chosen People Ministries is a religious organization that melds Judaism with evangelical Christian faith and engages in evangelism to Jews. It supports development of congregations of adherents to Messianic Judaism, which it describes as "faith communities that stress the Jewish context of the...

    • Coalition of Torah Observant Messianic Congregations
    • British Messianic Jewish Alliance
    • Fellowship of Messianic Congregations (FMC)
    • International Alliance of Messianic Congregations and Synagogues
    • International Federations of Messianic Jews (IFMJ)
    • International Messianic Jewish Alliance (IMJA)
    • Jews for Jesus
      Jews for Jesus
      Jews for Jesus is a conservative, Christian evangelical organization that focuses on the conversion of Jews to Christianity. Its members consider themselves to be Jews – either as defined by Jewish law, or as according to the view of Jews for Jesus. Jews for Jesus defines “Jewish” in terms of...

    • Messianic Bureau International (MBI)
    • Messianic Israel Alliance (MIA)
    • Messianic Jewish Alliance of America (MJAA)
      Messianic Jewish Alliance of America
      The Messianic Jewish Alliance of America was founded in 1915 as the Hebrew Christian Alliance of America.-History:The Hebrew Christian Alliance of America began in the early 19th century as missions by churches to Jews...

    • Messianic Jewish Alliance of Australia
    • Messianic Hebrews International
    • The Association of Messianic Congregations (AMC)
    • The British Messianic Jewish Alliance
    • The International Alliance of Messianic Congregations and Synagogues (IAMCS)
    • The Jerusalem Council
    • The United Alliance of Congregations Pursuing a Messianic Torah
    • Tikkun Ministries International
    • Union of Conservative Messianic Synagogues (UCMJS)
    • Union of Nazarene Jewish Synagogues
    • Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations (UMJC)
      Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations (UMJC)
      The Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations is an association of Messianic Jewish congregations and leaders formed to support formation and vitality of member congregations and Messianic Judaism worldwide.-Background:The Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations was formed in 1979 by nineteen...

    • Union of Nazarene Yisraelite Congregations
      Union of Nazarene Yisraelite Congregations
      The Union of Nazarene Yisraelite Congregations is a religious organization that was founded in 2000 by Rabbis Moshe Koniukowski, Edward Nydle, and Thomas Mitchell. It is made up of more than 60 Congregations. The main congregations are B'Nai Avraham, Ottumwa, Iowa; B'Nai Yeshurun, Kittanning, Pa....

    • United Messianic Jewish Alliance (UMJA)

    Esoteric Christianity



    • Anthroposophical Society
      Anthroposophical Society
      The General Anthroposophical Society is an organization dedicated to supporting the community of those interested in the form of spiritual philosophy known as anthroposophy. The society was initiated during 1913 by members of the Theosophical Society in Germany, including Rudolf Steiner who was at...

       of Rudolf Steiner
      Rudolf Steiner
      Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. He gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher...

    • Archeosophical Society
      Archeosophical Society
      The Archeosophical Society is a charitable cultural association founded by Tommaso Palamidessi in 1973. The purpose of the association is to study and develop Archeosophy.- The Archeosophical Society :...

       of Tommaso Palamidessi
      Tommaso Palamidessi
      Tommaso Palamidessi was an Italian esotericist. Precociously attracted by astrology, parapsychology and yoga-tantric doctrines, he was led by his manifold interests in the field of the occult and by his intense spiritual pursuit to build up an original form of Esoteric Christianity, which he...

    • Lectorium Rosicrucianum
      Lectorium Rosicrucianum
      The Lectorium Rosicrucianum is a worldwide school of Esoteric Christianity founded in 1935 by Dutch mystics Jan van Rijckenborgh, his brother Zwier Willem Leene and Catharose de Petri...

       of Jan van Rijckenborgh
      Jan van Rijckenborgh
      Jan van Rijckenborgh was a Dutch born mystic and founder of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum, a worldwide esoteric Rosicrucian movement....

      /Catharose de Petri
      Catharose de Petri
      Catharose de Petri was a Dutch born mystic and co-founder of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum, an international esoteric school based on Gnostic ideas of Christianity....

    • Martinism
      Martinism
      Martinism is a form of mystical and esoteric Christianity concerned with the fall of the first man, his state of material privation from his divine source, and the process of his return, called 'Reintegration' or illumination....

       of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
      Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
      Louis Claude de Saint-Martin was a French philosopher, known as le philosophe inconnu, the name under which his works were published.-Life:He was born, at Amboise, into a poor but noble family....

       et al.
    • Societas Rosicruciana
      Societas Rosicruciana
      The Societas Rosicruciana is a Rosicrucian order which limits its membership to Christian Master Masons. The order was founded in Scotland, but now exists in England, Scotland, Canada, France, Portugal, Romania, Ireland and the United States...

       by Masons
      Freemasonry
      Freemasonry is a fraternal organisation that arose from obscure origins in the late 16th to early 17th century. Freemasonry now exists in various forms all over the world, with a membership estimated at around six million, including approximately 150,000 under the jurisdictions of the Grand Lodge...

    • The Rosicrucian Fellowship of Max Heindel
      Max Heindel
      Max Heindel - born Carl Louis von Grasshoff in Aarhus, Denmark on July 23, 1865 - was a Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic. He died on January 6, 1919 at Oceanside, California, United States.- Early infancy :...

    Syncretistic religions incorporating elements of Christianity


    The relation of these movements to other Christian ideas can be remote. They are listed here because they include some elements of Christian practice or beliefs, within religious contexts which may be only loosely characterized as Christian.
    • Candomblé
      Candomblé
      Candomblé is an African-originated or Afro-Brazilian religion, practised chiefly in Brazil by the "povo de santo" . It originated in the cities of Salvador, the capital of Bahia and Cachoeira, at the time one of the main commercial crossroads for the distribution of products and slave trade to...

    • Vodou
    • Pilgrims of Arès
      Pilgrims of Arès
      The Pilgrims of Arès is the name of a new religious movement founded in 1974 and whose founder was Michel Potay. It was named after the town of Arès, Gironde, where Michel Potay would have received revelations. Beliefs and practices are based on the Revelation of Arès, written by Potay.-Members and...

    • Rastafari movement
      Rastafari movement
      The Rastafari movement or Rasta is a new religious movement that arose in the 1930s in Jamaica, which at the time was a country with a predominantly Christian culture where 98% of the people were the black descendants of slaves. Its adherents worship Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia , as God...

    • Santería
      Santería
      Santería is a syncretic religion of West African and Caribbean origin influenced by Roman Catholic Christianity, also known as Regla de Ocha, La Regla Lucumi, or Lukumi. Its liturgical language, a dialect of Yoruba, is also known as Lucumi....

    • Santo Daime
      Santo Daime
      Santo Daime is a syncretic spiritual practice founded in the 1930s in the Brazilian Amazonian state of Acre by Raimundo Irineu Serra, known as Mestre Irineu...

    • Umbanda
      Umbanda
      Umbanda is an Afro-Brazilian religion that blends African religions with Catholicism, Spiritism and Kardecism, and considerable indigenous lore....


    See also



    • Denominationalism
      Denominationalism
      Denominationalism is the division of one religion into separate groups, sects, schools of thought or denominations. Denominationalism as an ideology which views some or all Christian groups as being, in some sense, versions of the same thing regardless of their distinguishing labels, is not...

    • List of Christian denominations by number of members
    • List of the largest Protestant churches of the world
    • List of religions and spiritual traditions
    • List of religious organizations
    • Parachurch organization
      Parachurch organization
      Parachurch organizations are Christian faith-based organizations that work outside of and across denominations to engage in social welfare and evangelism, usually independent of church oversight. These bodies can be businesses, non-profit corporations, or private associations. Most parachurch...

    • Timeline of Christianity
      Timeline of Christianity
      The purpose of this timeline is to give a detailed account of Christianity from the beginning of the current era to the present. Question marks on dates indicate approximate dates....