List of Christian denominations by number of members
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This article cannot give precise information about the size of any Christian denomination, but it tries - following the article in the English Wikipedia - to give information about the relative size of denominations. That cannot be exact either, but will be of interest nevertheless.
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- Catholicism - 1.2 billion
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- Roman Catholic Church - 1,185,168,538
- Eastern Catholic Churches - 14,831,462
- Maronite Syriac Church of Antioch – 3 million
- Syriac Catholic Church – 132 thousand
- Chaldean Catholic Church – 1.5 million
- Syro-Malankara Catholic Church – 535 thousand
- Syro-Malabar Catholic Church – 3.6 million
- Coptic Catholic Church – 163 thousand
- Ethiopian Catholic Church – 230 thousand
- Armenian Catholic Church - 376 thousand
- Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church - 3 thousand
- Belarusian Greek Catholic Church – 9 thousand
- Croatian Greek Catholic Church – 77 thousand
- Greek Byzantine Catholic Church - 5 thousand
- Hungarian Greek Catholic Church -282 thousand
- Italo-Greek Catholic Church – 61 thousand
- Macedonian Catholic Church - 15 thousand
- Melkite Greek Catholic Church – 1.6 million
- Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic - 763 thousand
- Russian Catholic Church - 500 thousand
- Ruthenian Catholic Church - 646 thousand
- Slovak Greek Catholic Church - 350 thousand
- Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church - 4,223,425
- Georgian Byzantine Rite Catholics - 500
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- Old Catholic Church - 0.5 million
- Protestantism - 590 million
- Historical Protestantism - 340 million
- Baptist churches - 110 million[1]
- Calvinist churches - 75 million
- Methodism - 75 million
- Lutheranism - 70 million[2]
- Anabaptism/Radical Reformation - 4.5 million
- Mennonites - 1.3 million
- Amish - 0.2 million
- Hutterites
- Church of the Brethren - 0.13 million
- Brethren in Christ
- Open Brethren - 1.85 million[3]
- Quakers - 0.35 million
- The Vineyard - 1500+ churches
- Calvary Chapel - 1000+ churches
- Pentecostalism - 105 million (Royal Geographic Society figures). Estimates vary widely. The Penguin Concise Encyclopedia estimates "over 22 million" Pentecostals, as does the Cambridge encyclopedia, while the Oxford Dictionary of World Religion estimates "at least 130 million". The number of members claimed by the largest Pentecostal groups are:
- Assemblies of God - 51 million
- New Apostolic Church - 11 million
- Kimbanguist Church - 8 million
- Church of God in Christ - 7 million
- The Pentecostal Mission - 6.7 million
- Apostolic Church - 6 million
- Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) - 5 million
- Korean Presbyterian Church - 4.5 million
- Christian Congregation of Brazil - 2.5 million
- Church of the Lord (Aladura) - 2.5 million
- Zion Christian Church - 2.5 million
- International Church of the Foursquare Gospel - 2 million
- Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus) - 2 million
- Restorationism - 30 million
- Seventh-day Adventists - 16.3 million [4]
- Latter-day Saints - 13.8 million [5]
- Restoration Movement - 4 million
- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
- Church of Christ
- Independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ
- Evangelical Christian Church in Canada (Christian Disciples) - 0.1 million
- Nontrinitarianism - 10 million
- Jehovah's Witnesses - 15 million
- Iglesia ni Cristo - 1.68 million[6]
- Oneness Pentecostals
- Unitarianism
- Christadelphians
- Historical Protestantism - 340 million
- Eastern Orthodoxy - 225 million
- Autocephalous churches
- Russian Orthodox Church - under 75 million
- Romanian Orthodox Church - 20 million
- Serbian Orthodox Church - 10 million
- Church of Greece - 9 million
- Bulgarian Orthodox Church - 9 million
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) - 5.5 million [1]
- Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church - 5.0 million
- Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople - 3.5 million
- Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch - 1.5 million
- Orthodox Church in America - 1 million
- Polish Orthodox Church - 1 million
- Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church - 1 million
- Albanian Orthodox Church - 0.6 million
- Cypriot Orthodox Church - 0.45 million
- Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria - 0.35 million
- Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church - 0.33 million[2]
- Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem - 0.26 million
- Autonomous churches
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) - 7,2 million[3]
- Moldovan Orthodox Church - 2 million
- Metropolis of Western Europe - 0.1 million
- Finnish Orthodox Church - 0.06 million
- Chinese Orthodox Church - 0.03 million
- Estonian Orthodox Church - 0.02 million
- Japanese Orthodox Church - 0.01 million
- Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
- Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia
- Latvian Orthodox Church
- Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai
- Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric
- Churches in resistance
- Not universally recognized churches
- Churches which opted out
- Autocephalous churches
- Anglicanism - 73 million
- Anglican Communion - 73 million
- Continuing Anglican Movement
- Oriental Orthodoxy - 72 million
- Ethiopian Orthodox Church - 39 million (incl. abroad)
- Coptic Orthodox Church - 15 million (of which 11 in Egypt, 4 abroad)
- Armenian Apostolic Church - 7 million (of which 3 in Armenia, 4 abroad)
- Indian Orthodox Church - 4.5 million
- Syriac Orthodox Church - 3.5 million (incl. Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church)
- Eritrean Orthodox Church - 2.5 million
- Mar Thoma Syrian Church - 1.5 million
- Malabar Independent Syrian Church - 1 million
- Assyrian Church of the East - 0.5 million
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[change] References
- ↑ Baptist World Alliance
- ↑ Lutheran World Federation
- ↑ 'encyclopédie de D. BARRET, "Assemblées de Frères", 1985.
- ↑ Adventist News Network, "Membership, financial audits key to Adventist Church growth, leaders say"; 26 June 2010
- ↑ LDS Statistical Report 2009
- ↑ 1997 Britannica Book of the Year; pg. 781-783.
