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Liberal Catholic Churches (19th–20th centuries)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Old_and_Liberal_Catholic_Churches_(19th–20th_centuries)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Eastern_Christianity" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Eastern_Christianity"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>Eastern Christianity</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Eastern_Christianity-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Western_Christianity" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Western_Christianity"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>Western Christianity</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Western_Christianity-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Christians_with_Jewish_roots" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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<span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Unitarianism</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Unitarianism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Restorationism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Restorationism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Restorationism</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Restorationism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Second_Great_Awakening" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Second_Great_Awakening"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2.1</span> <span>Second Great Awakening</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Second_Great_Awakening-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Latter_Day_Saint_movement" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Latter_Day_Saint_movement"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2.2</span> <span>Latter Day Saint movement</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Latter_Day_Saint_movement-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Spiritual_Christianity" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Spiritual_Christianity"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Spiritual Christianity</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Spiritual_Christianity-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_movements" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_movements"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Other movements</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_movements-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xristian_m%C9%99zh%C9%99bl%C9%99ri" title="Xristian məzhəbləri – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Xristian məzhəbləri" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%96%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC" title="খ্রিস্টান সম্প্রদায় – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="খ্রিস্টান সম্প্রদায়" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Християнска деноминация – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Християнска деноминация" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisi%C3%B3_del_cristianisme" title="Divisió del cristianisme – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Divisió del cristianisme" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%99es%C5%A5ansk%C3%A1_denominace" title="Křesťanská denominace – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Křesťanská denominace" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirke_(trosretning)" title="Kirke (trosretning) – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Kirke (trosretning)" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A7%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE_%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%B1" title="Χριστιανική ομολογία – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Χριστιανική ομολογία" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confesi%C3%B3n_cristiana" title="Confesión cristiana – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Confesión cristiana" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristau-sinesbide" title="Kristau-sinesbide – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Kristau-sinesbide" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%87_%D9%85%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%AD%DB%8C" title="فرقه مسیحی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="فرقه مسیحی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_du_christianisme" title="Confessions du christianisme – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Confessions du christianisme" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B8%B0%EB%8F%85%EA%B5%90%EC%9D%98_%EA%B5%90%ED%8C%8C" title="기독교의 교파 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="기독교의 교파" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C5%A1%C4%87anske_denominacije" title="Kršćanske denominacije – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Kršćanske denominacije" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denominasi_Kristen" title="Denominasi Kristen – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Denominasi Kristen" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denominationes_christian" title="Denominationes christian – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Denominationes christian" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%96%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%A6%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA" title="זרמים בנצרות – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="זרמים בנצרות" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezheb%C3%AAn_xiristiyan%C3%AE" title="Mezhebên xiristiyanî – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Mezhebên xiristiyanî" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konfesija" title="Konfesija – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Konfesija" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0" title="Христијанска деноминација – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Христијанска деноминација" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazhab_Kristian" title="Mazhab Kristian – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Mazhab Kristian" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mwl mw-list-item"><a href="https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamamientos_crestianos" title="Chamamientos crestianos – Mirandese" lang="mwl" hreflang="mwl" data-title="Chamamientos crestianos" data-language-autonym="Mirandés" data-language-local-name="Mirandese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Mirandés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerkgenootschap" title="Kerkgenootschap – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Kerkgenootschap" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkesamfunn" title="Kirkesamfunn – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Kirkesamfunn" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrkjesamfunn" title="Kyrkjesamfunn – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" 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Jesus">Ministry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crucifixion_of_Jesus" title="Crucifixion of Jesus">Crucifixion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus" title="Resurrection of Jesus">Resurrection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ascension_of_Jesus" title="Ascension of Jesus">Ascension</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background: #efefef;background:#efefef;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a></li><li>Foundations</li></ul></div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gospel" title="Gospel">Gospel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biblical_canon" title="Biblical canon">Canon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Church" title="Christian Church">Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creed" title="Creed">Creed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Covenant" title="New Covenant">New Covenant</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background: #efefef;background:#efefef;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Christian_theology" title="Christian theology">Theology</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/God_in_Christianity" title="God in Christianity">God</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trinity" title="Trinity">Trinity</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/God_the_Father_(Christianity)" class="mw-redirect" title="God the Father (Christianity)">Father</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Son_of_God_(Christianity)" title="Son of God (Christianity)">Son</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Template:Christianity_sidebar" title="Template:Christianity sidebar"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Christianity_sidebar" title="Template talk:Christianity sidebar"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Christianity_sidebar" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Christianity sidebar"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>A <b>Christian denomination</b> is a distinct <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religious</a> body within <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> that comprises all <a href="/wiki/Church_(congregation)" title="Church (congregation)">church congregations</a> of the same kind, identifiable by traits such as a name, particular history, organization, leadership, <a href="/wiki/Theology" title="Theology">theological doctrine</a>, worship style and, sometimes, a founder. It is a secular and neutral term, generally used to denote any established Christian church. Unlike a <a href="/wiki/Cult" title="Cult">cult</a> or sect, a denomination is usually seen as part of the Christian religious mainstream. Most Christian denominations refer to themselves as <i>churches</i>, whereas some newer ones tend to interchangeably use the terms <i>churches</i>, <i>assemblies</i>, <a href="/wiki/Koinonia" title="Koinonia"><i>fellowships</i></a>, etc. Divisions between one group and another are defined by authority and doctrine; issues such as the <a href="/wiki/Christology" title="Christology">nature of Jesus</a>, the authority of <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_succession" title="Apostolic succession">apostolic succession</a>, <a href="/wiki/Biblical_hermeneutics" title="Biblical hermeneutics">biblical hermeneutics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Christian_theology" title="Christian theology">theology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ecclesiology" title="Ecclesiology">ecclesiology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Christian_eschatology" title="Christian eschatology">eschatology</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Papal_primacy" title="Papal primacy">papal primacy</a> may separate one denomination from another. Groups of denominations—often sharing broadly similar beliefs, practices, and historical ties—are sometimes known as "branches of Christianity". These branches differ in many ways, especially through differences in practices and belief.<sup id="cite_ref-Ellwood1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ellwood1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Swatos1_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Swatos1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BecchioSchadé1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BecchioSchadé1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Richey1_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Richey1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Rhodes1_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rhodes1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wootten1_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wootten1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Individual <a href="/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations" title="List of Christian denominations">denominations</a> vary widely in the degree to which they recognize one another. Several groups say they are the direct and <a href="/wiki/One_true_church" title="One true church">sole authentic successor</a> of the church founded by <a href="/wiki/Jesus_Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesus Christ">Jesus Christ</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_the_1st_century" title="Christianity in the 1st century">1st century AD</a>. Others, however, believe in denominationalism, where some or all Christian groups are legitimate churches of the same religion regardless of their distinguishing labels, beliefs, and practices. Because of this concept, some Christian bodies reject the term "denomination" to describe themselves, to avoid implying equivalence with other churches or denominations. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>, which has over 1.3 billion members or 50.1% of all Christians worldwide,<sup id="cite_ref-pewforum1_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pewforum1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AnnuarioPontificio_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AnnuarioPontificio-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> does not view itself as a denomination, but as the original pre-denominational Church.<sup id="cite_ref-olsen1999_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-olsen1999-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The total <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> population has reached around 1.047 billion in 2024, accounting for about 39.8% of all Christians.<sup id="cite_ref-WorldChristian_Database_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WorldChristian_Database-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pewforum1_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pewforum1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CSGC-2019_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CSGC-2019-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sixteenth-century Protestants separated from the Catholic Church as a result of the <a href="/wiki/Reformation" title="Reformation">Reformation</a>, a movement against doctrines and practices which the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformers" title="Protestant Reformers">Reformers</a> perceived to be in violation of the Bible.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Together, Catholicism and Protestantism (with major traditions including <a href="/wiki/Adventism" title="Adventism">Adventism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anabaptism" title="Anabaptism">Anabaptism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglicanism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lutheranism" title="Lutheranism">Lutheranism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Methodism" title="Methodism">Methodism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Moravian_Church" title="Moravian Church">Moravianism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pentecostalism" title="Pentecostalism">Pentecostalism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Brethren" title="Plymouth Brethren">Plymouth Brethren</a>, <a href="/wiki/Quakerism" class="mw-redirect" title="Quakerism">Quakerism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Calvinism" class="mw-redirect" title="Calvinism">Reformed</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Waldensians" title="Waldensians">Waldensianism</a>) compose <a href="/wiki/Western_Christianity" title="Western Christianity">Western Christianity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB2008_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB2008-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Melton2005_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Melton2005-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Western Christian denominations prevail in <a href="/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa" title="Sub-Saharan Africa">Sub-Saharan Africa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a> (excluding Eastern Europe), <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North America</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oceania" title="Oceania">Oceania</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_America" title="South America">South America</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox Church</a>, with an estimated 230 million adherents,<sup id="cite_ref-Peworthodox_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peworthodox-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CSGC-2019_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CSGC-2019-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is the second-largest Christian body in the world and also considers itself the original pre-denominational Church. Orthodox Christians, 80% of whom are Eastern Orthodox and 20% Oriental Orthodox, make up about 11.9% of the global Christian population.<sup id="cite_ref-Peworthodox_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peworthodox-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Eastern Orthodox Church is itself a <a href="/wiki/Koinonia" title="Koinonia">communion</a> of fully independent <a href="/wiki/Autocephaly" title="Autocephaly">autocephalous</a> churches (or "jurisdictions") that recognize each other, for the most part. Similarly, the Catholic Church is a communion of <i><a href="/wiki/Sui_iuris" title="Sui iuris">sui iuris</a></i> churches, including 23 Eastern ones. The Eastern Orthodox Church, the 23 <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_Churches" title="Eastern Catholic Churches">Eastern Catholic Churches</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Churches" title="Oriental Orthodox Churches">Oriental Orthodox communion</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_Church_of_the_East" title="Assyrian Church of the East">Assyrian Church of the East</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Church_of_the_East" title="Ancient Church of the East">Ancient Church of the East</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Lutheranism" title="Eastern Lutheranism">Eastern Lutheran Churches</a> constitute <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Christianity" title="Eastern Christianity">Eastern Christianity</a>. There are certain <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Protestant_Christianity" title="Eastern Protestant Christianity">Eastern Protestant Christians</a> that have adopted Protestant theology but have cultural and historical ties with other Eastern Christians. Eastern Christian denominations are represented mostly in <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Europe" title="Eastern Europe">Eastern Europe</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Asia" title="North Asia">North Asia</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>, <a href="/wiki/Horn_of_Africa" title="Horn of Africa">Northeast Africa</a>, and <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>. </p><p>Christians have various doctrines about the Church (the body of the faithful that they believe Jesus Christ established) and about how the divine church corresponds to Christian denominations. The Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Church of the East and Lutheran denominations, each hold that only their own specific organization faithfully represents the <a href="/wiki/Four_Marks_of_the_Church" title="Four Marks of the Church">one holy catholic and apostolic Church</a>, to the <a href="/wiki/Religious_exclusivism#Christianity" title="Religious exclusivism">exclusion</a> of all others. Certain denominational traditions teach that they were divinely instituted to propagate a certain doctrine or spiritual experience, for example the raising up of <a href="/wiki/Methodism" title="Methodism">Methodism</a> by God to propagate <a href="/wiki/Christian_perfection#Wesleyan_teaching" title="Christian perfection">entire sanctification</a> (the "second blessing"),<sup id="cite_ref-DaviesGeorge2017_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DaviesGeorge2017-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or the launch of <a href="/wiki/Pentecostalism" title="Pentecostalism">Pentecostalism</a> to bestow a supernatural <a href="/wiki/Third_work_of_grace" title="Third work of grace">empowerment</a> evidenced by <a href="/wiki/Speaking_in_tongues" title="Speaking in tongues">speaking in tongues</a> on humanity.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Restorationism" title="Restorationism">Restorationism</a> emerged after the <a href="/wiki/Second_Great_Awakening" title="Second Great Awakening">Second Great Awakening</a> and collectively affirms belief in a <a href="/wiki/Great_Apostasy" title="Great Apostasy">Great Apostasy</a>, thus promoting a belief in restoring what they see as primitive Christianity.<sup id="cite_ref-Riswold2009_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Riswold2009-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It includes <a href="/wiki/Mormonism" title="Mormonism">Mormons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Irvingianism" class="mw-redirect" title="Irvingianism">Irvingians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Christadelphians" title="Christadelphians">Christadelphians</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_New_Church_(Swedenborgian)" title="The New Church (Swedenborgian)">Swedenborgians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses" title="Jehovah's Witnesses">Jehovah's Witnesses</a>, among others, although beliefs between these religions differ greatly.<sup id="cite_ref-OCRT2012_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OCRT2012-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bloesch2005_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bloesch2005-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Spinks2017_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Spinks2017-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Generally, members of the various denominations acknowledge each other as Christians, at least to the extent that they have mutually recognized <a href="/wiki/Baptism" title="Baptism">baptisms</a> and acknowledge historically <a href="/wiki/Orthodoxy" title="Orthodoxy">orthodox</a> views including the <a href="/wiki/Christology" title="Christology">divinity of Jesus</a> and doctrines of <a href="/wiki/Christian_views_on_sin" title="Christian views on sin">sin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Salvation_in_Christianity" title="Salvation in Christianity">salvation</a>, even though doctrinal and <a href="/wiki/Ecclesiology" title="Ecclesiology">ecclesiological</a> obstacles hinder <a href="/wiki/Ecumenism" title="Ecumenism">full communion between churches</a>. Since the reforms surrounding the <a href="/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council" title="Second Vatican Council">Second Vatican Council</a> of 1962–1965, the Catholic Church has referred to Protestant churches as <a href="/wiki/Ecclesial_community" title="Ecclesial community">ecclesial communities</a>, while reserving the term "church" for <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_succession" title="Apostolic succession">apostolic churches</a>, including the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches, as well as the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Church_of_the_East" title="Ancient Church of the East">Ancient</a> and <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_Church_of_the_East" title="Assyrian Church of the East">Assyrian Churches of the East</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1033199720">.mw-parser-output div.crossreference{padding-left:0}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference">(see <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Subsistit_in" title="Subsistit in">subsistit in</a></i></span> and <a href="/wiki/Branch_theory" title="Branch theory">branch theory</a>)</span>. But some <a href="/wiki/Non-denominational_Christianity" title="Non-denominational Christianity">non-denominational Christians</a> do not follow any particular branch,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though they sometimes are regarded as Protestants.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Terminology">Terminology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Terminology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Christian_Church#Related_concepts" title="Christian Church">Christian Church § Related concepts</a></div> <p>Each group uses different terminology to discuss their beliefs. This section will discuss the definitions of several terms used throughout the article, before discussing the beliefs themselves in detail in following sections. </p><p>A denomination within Christianity can be defined as a "recognized autonomous branch of the Christian Church"; major synonyms include "religious group, sect, Church," etc.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>Note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Church" as a synonym, refers to a "particular Christian organization with its own clergy, buildings, and distinctive doctrines";<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "church" can also more broadly be defined as the entire body of Christians, the "<a href="/wiki/Christian_Church" title="Christian Church">Christian Church</a>". </p><p>Some traditional and evangelical <a href="/wiki/Protestants" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestants">Protestants</a> draw a distinction between membership in the universal church and fellowship within the local church. Becoming a believer in Christ makes one a member of the universal church; one then may join a fellowship of other local believers.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some <a href="/wiki/Evangelical" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelical">evangelical</a> groups describe themselves as interdenominational fellowships, partnering with local churches to strengthen evangelical efforts, usually targeting a particular group with specialized needs, such as students or ethnic groups.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A related concept is <a href="/wiki/Denominationalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Denominationalism">denominationalism</a>, the belief that some or all Christian groups are legitimate churches of the same religion regardless of their distinguishing labels, beliefs, and practices.<sup id="cite_ref-Jackson_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jackson-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Conversely, "denominationalism" can also refer to "emphasizing of denominational differences to the point of being narrowly exclusive", similar to <a href="/wiki/Sectarianism" title="Sectarianism">sectarianism</a>.)<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The views of Protestant leaders differ greatly from those of the leaders of the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, the two largest Christian denominations. Each church makes mutually exclusive statements for itself to be the direct continuation of the church founded by Jesus Christ, from whom other denominations later broke away.<sup id="cite_ref-olsen1999_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-olsen1999-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These churches, and a few others, reject denominationalism. For the purpose of academic study of religion, the main families of Christianity are categorized as a denomination, that is, "an organized body of Christians."<sup id="cite_ref-BallantineRoberts2008_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BallantineRoberts2008-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Historically, Catholics would <a href="/wiki/Labelling#Labelling_in_argumentation" title="Labelling">label</a> members of certain Christian churches (also certain non-Christian religions) by the names of their founders, either actual or purported. Such supposed founders were referred to as <a href="/wiki/Heresiarch" title="Heresiarch">heresiarchs</a>. This was done even when the party thus labeled viewed itself as belonging to the one true church. This allowed the Catholic party to say that the other church was founded by the founder, while the Catholic church was founded by Christ. This was done intentionally in order to "produce the appearance of the fragmentation within Christianity"<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – a problem which the Catholic side would then attempt to remedy on its own terms. </p><p>Although Catholics reject <a href="/wiki/Branch_theory" title="Branch theory">branch theory</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI" title="Pope Benedict XVI">Pope Benedict XVI</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a> used the "two lungs" concept to relate Catholicism with Eastern Orthodoxy.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Major_branches">Major branches</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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class="thumbcaption"> <p>World Christianity by tradition in 2024 as per World Christian Database<sup id="cite_ref-WorldChristian_Database_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WorldChristian_Database-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#377EB8; color:;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_by_country" title="Catholic Church by country">Catholic</a> (48.6%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#5FD35B; color:;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Protestantism_by_country" title="Protestantism by country">Protestant</a> (39.8%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#713A7A; color:;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> Orthodox, including <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy" title="Eastern Orthodoxy">Eastern</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Oriental Orthodox Church">Oriental</a> communions (11.1%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#FF7F00; color:;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> Other (0.5%)</div> </div> </div></div> <div class="PieChartTemplate thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px"> <div class="mw-no-invert" style="background-color:white;margin:auto;position:relative;width:200px;height:200px;overflow:hidden;border-radius:100px;border:1px solid black;transform:scaleX(-1)rotate(-90deg)"> <div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:0; top:0; border-width:0 200px 200px 0; border-color:#FF7F00; z-index:-1"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:100px; top:100px; border-width:100px 0 0 1221.5448675752px; border-left-color:#713A7A"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:#713A7A"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 100px 200px 0;border-color:#713A7A"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:100px; top:100px; border-width:100px 0 0 91.568921586116px; border-left-color:#5FD35B"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:#5FD35B"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 100px 200px 0;border-color:#5FD35B"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;right:100px; top:100px; border-width:0.6283143965559px 99.998026085614px 0 0; border-top-color:#377EB8"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:#377EB8"></div> </div> <div class="thumbcaption"> <p>Worldwide Christians by denomination as of 2011<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit">[update]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#377EB8; color:;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a> (50.1%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#5FD35B; color:;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> (36.7%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#713A7A; color:;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> Orthodox, including <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy" title="Eastern Orthodoxy">Eastern</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Oriental Orthodox Church">Oriental</a> communions (11.9%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#FF7F00; color:;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> Other (1.3%)</div> </div> </div></div> <p>Christianity can be <a href="/wiki/Taxonomy" title="Taxonomy">taxonomically</a> divided into six main groups: the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_East" title="Church of the East">Church of the East</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Churches" title="Oriental Orthodox Churches">Oriental Orthodoxy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodoxy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholicism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestantism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Restorationism" title="Restorationism">Restorationism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Riswold2009_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Riswold2009-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GaoSawatsky2023_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GaoSawatsky2023-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Protestantism includes many groups which do not share any ecclesiastical governance and have widely diverging beliefs and practices.<sup id="cite_ref-EB2008_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB2008-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Major Protestant branches include <a href="/wiki/Adventism" title="Adventism">Adventism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anabaptism" title="Anabaptism">Anabaptism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglicanism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lutheranism" title="Lutheranism">Lutheranism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Methodism" title="Methodism">Methodism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Moravian_Church" title="Moravian Church">Moravianism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Quakerism" class="mw-redirect" title="Quakerism">Quakerism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pentecostalism" title="Pentecostalism">Pentecostalism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Brethren" title="Plymouth Brethren">Plymouth Brethren</a>, <a href="/wiki/Reformed_Christianity" title="Reformed Christianity">Reformed Christianity</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Waldensians" title="Waldensians">Waldensianism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB2008_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB2008-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Melton2005_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Melton2005-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reformed Christianity itself includes the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Reformed" class="mw-redirect" title="Continental Reformed">Continental Reformed</a>, <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian" class="mw-redirect" title="Presbyterian">Presbyterian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelical Anglican">Evangelical Anglican</a>, <a href="/wiki/Congregationalist_church" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregationalist church">Congregationalist</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Reformed_Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Reformed Baptist">Reformed Baptist</a> traditions.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Anabaptist Christianity itself includes the <a href="/wiki/Amish" title="Amish">Amish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Christian_Church" title="Apostolic Christian Church">Apostolic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bruderhof_Communities" title="Bruderhof Communities">Bruderhof</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hutterite" class="mw-redirect" title="Hutterite">Hutterite</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mennonite" class="mw-redirect" title="Mennonite">Mennonite</a>, <a href="/wiki/River_Brethren" title="River Brethren">River Brethren</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Schwarzenau_Brethren" title="Schwarzenau Brethren">Schwarzenau Brethren</a> traditions.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Within the <a href="/wiki/Restorationism" title="Restorationism">Restorationist</a> branch of Christianity, denominations include the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Apostolic_Church" title="Catholic Apostolic Church">Irvingians</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_New_Church_(Swedenborgian)" title="The New Church (Swedenborgian)">Swedenborgians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Christadelphians" title="Christadelphians">Christadelphians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Latter_Day_Saint_movement" title="Latter Day Saint movement">Latter Day Saints</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses" title="Jehovah's Witnesses">Jehovah's Witnesses</a>, <span title="Spanish-language text"><span lang="es" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="/wiki/La_Luz_del_Mundo" title="La Luz del Mundo">La Luz del Mundo</a></span></span>, and <span title="Tagalog-language text"><span lang="tl" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo" title="Iglesia ni Cristo">Iglesia ni Cristo</a></span></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-LewisMittelstadt2016_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LewisMittelstadt2016-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bloesch2005_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bloesch2005-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Spinks2017_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Spinks2017-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Christianity has denominational families (or movements) and also has individual denominations (or communions). The difference between a denomination and a denominational family is sometimes unclear to outsiders. Some denominational families can be considered major branches. Groups that are members of a branch, while sharing historical ties and similar doctrines, are not necessarily in <a href="/wiki/Communion_(Christianity)" class="mw-redirect" title="Communion (Christianity)">communion</a> with one another. </p><p>There were some movements considered heresies by the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Christianity" title="History of Christianity">early Church</a> which do not exist today and are not generally referred to as denominations: examples include the <a href="/wiki/Gnosticism" title="Gnosticism">Gnostics</a> (who had believed in an <a href="/wiki/Western_esotericism" title="Western esotericism">esoteric</a> <a href="/wiki/Dualistic_cosmology" class="mw-redirect" title="Dualistic cosmology">dualism</a> called <a href="/wiki/Gnosis" title="Gnosis">gnosis</a>), the <a href="/wiki/Ebionite" class="mw-redirect" title="Ebionite">Ebionites</a> (who denied the divinity of Jesus), and the <a href="/wiki/Arianism" title="Arianism">Arians</a> (who subordinated the <a href="/wiki/God_the_Son" title="God the Son">Son</a> to the <a href="/wiki/God_the_Father" title="God the Father">Father</a> by denying the <a href="/wiki/Pre-existence_of_Christ" title="Pre-existence of Christ">pre-existence of Christ</a>, thus placing <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> as a created being), <a href="/wiki/Bogomilism" title="Bogomilism">Bogomilism</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Bosnian_Church" title="Bosnian Church">Bosnian Church</a>. The greatest divisions in Christianity today, however, are between the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Catholics, and the various denominations formed during and after the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reformation">Protestant Reformation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There also exists a number of <a href="/wiki/Non-Trinitarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-Trinitarian">non-Trinitarian</a> groups. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Denominationalism">Denominationalism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Denominationalism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Denominationalism is the belief that some or all Christian groups are legitimate churches of the same religion regardless of their distinguishing labels, beliefs, and practices.<sup id="cite_ref-Jackson_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jackson-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The idea was first articulated by <a href="/wiki/Independent_(religion)" title="Independent (religion)">Independents</a> within the <a href="/wiki/Puritan" class="mw-redirect" title="Puritan">Puritan</a> movement. They argued that differences among Christians were inevitable, but that separation based on these differences was not necessarily <a href="/wiki/Schism_(religion)" class="mw-redirect" title="Schism (religion)">schism</a>. Christians are obligated to practice their beliefs rather than remain within a church with which they disagree, but they must also recognize their imperfect knowledge and not condemn other Christians as <a href="/wiki/Apostate" class="mw-redirect" title="Apostate">apostate</a> over unimportant matters.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some Christians view denominationalism as a regrettable fact. As of 2011, divisions are becoming less sharp, and there is increasing cooperation between denominations, which is known as <a href="/wiki/Ecumenism" title="Ecumenism">ecumenism</a>. Many denominations participate in the <a href="/wiki/World_Council_of_Churches" title="World Council of Churches">World Council of Churches</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Taxonomy">Taxonomy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Taxonomy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="clade clade-words noresize nowrap" style="position: relative;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Christianity_Branches_without_text.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Christianity_Branches_without_text.svg/700px-Christianity_Branches_without_text.svg.png" decoding="async" width="700" height="264" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Christianity_Branches_without_text.svg/1050px-Christianity_Branches_without_text.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Christianity_Branches_without_text.svg/1400px-Christianity_Branches_without_text.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2416" data-file-height="911" /></a></span> <div style="position:absolute; left:1px; top:-1px">Major <a href="/wiki/Category:Christian_denominational_families" title="Category:Christian denominational families">denominational families</a> in Christianity:<br /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist"><span>This box: </span><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Christian_denomination_tree" title="Template:Christian denomination tree"><span title="View this template">view</span></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Christian_denomination_tree" title="Template talk:Christian denomination tree"><span title="Discuss this template">talk</span></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Christian_denomination_tree" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Christian denomination tree"><span title="Edit this template">edit</span></a></li></ul></div></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:680px; top:47.3px"><span style="display: inline-block; transform: rotate(-90deg);"><i><a href="/wiki/Western_Christianity" title="Western Christianity">Western Christianity</a></i></span></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:680px; top:170.5px"><span style="display: inline-block; transform: rotate(-90deg);"><i><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Christianity" title="Eastern Christianity">Eastern Christianity</a></i></span></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:589px; top:37.5px"><span style="display: inline-block; transform: rotate(-90deg);"><a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism"><span style="color:green;">Protestantism</span></a></span></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:540px; top:27px"><a href="/wiki/Anabaptism" title="Anabaptism"><span style="color:olive;">Anabaptism</span></a></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:540px; top:43.8px"><a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism"><span style="color:darkgreen;">Anglicanism</span></a></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:540px; top:75.3px"><a href="/wiki/Lutheranism" title="Lutheranism"><span style="color:green;">Lutheranism</span></a></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:540px; top:60.6px"><a href="/wiki/Reformed_Christianity" title="Reformed Christianity">Reformed</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:540px; top:98.4px"><a href="/wiki/Latin_Church" title="Latin Church"><span style="color:red;">(Latin Church)</span></a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:540px; top:108.9px"><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church"><span style="color:red;">Catholic Church</span></a></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:540px; top:125px"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_Churches" title="Eastern Catholic Churches"><span style="color:red;">(Eastern Catholic Churches)</span></a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:540px; top:160px"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church"><span style="color:blue;">Eastern Orthodox Church</span></a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:540px; top:177.5px"><a href="/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Churches" title="Oriental Orthodox Churches"><span style="color:purple;">Oriental Orthodox Churches</span></a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:225px; top:204.1px"><a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_East" title="Church of the East"><span style="color:orange;">Church of the East</span></a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:358px; top:226.5px"><a href="/wiki/Schism_of_1552" title="Schism of 1552">Schism</a> <i>(1552)</i></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:540px; top:198.5px"><a href="/wiki/Assyrian_Church_of_the_East" title="Assyrian Church of the East"><span style="color:orange;">Assyrian Church of the East</span></a></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:540px; top:212.5px"><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Church_of_the_East" title="Ancient Church of the East"><span style="color:orange;">Ancient Church of the East</span></a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:309px; top:13.7px"><a href="/wiki/Reformation" title="Reformation">Protestant Reformation</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:309px; top:29.8px"><i>(16th century)</i></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:183px; top:51.5px"><a href="/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Schism" title="East–West Schism">Great Schism</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:183px; top:65.5px"><i>(11th century)</i></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:8px; top:195px"><a href="/wiki/Council_of_Ephesus" title="Council of Ephesus">Council of Ephesus</a> <i>(431)</i></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:8px; top:216px"><a href="/wiki/Council_of_Chalcedon" title="Council of Chalcedon">Council of Chalcedon</a> <i>(451)</i></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:-6px; top:132px"><i><span style="display: inline-block; transform: rotate(-90deg);"><span style="color:gray;"><a href="/wiki/Early_Christianity" title="Early Christianity">Early Christianity</a></span></span></i></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:1px; top:58.5px"><span style="color:gray;"><i><a href="/wiki/Great_Church" title="Great Church">Great Church</a></i></span></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:414px; top:111px">(<a href="/wiki/Full_communion#List_of_Catholic_churches_in_full_communion" title="Full communion">Full communion</a>)</div></div> <dl><dd>(Not shown are <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_the_ante-Nicene_period" title="Christianity in the ante-Nicene period">ante-Nicene</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nontrinitarianism" title="Nontrinitarianism">nontrinitarian</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Restorationism" title="Restorationism">restorationist</a> denominations.)</dd></dl> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historical_schisms_and_divisions">Historical schisms and divisions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Historical schisms and divisions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Christianity has not been a monolithic faith since the <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_the_1st_century" title="Christianity in the 1st century">first century</a> or <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Age" class="mw-redirect" title="Apostolic Age">Apostolic Age</a>, though Christians were largely in communion with each other. Today there exist a large variety of groups that share a common history and tradition within and without mainstream Christianity. Christianity is the largest religion in the world (making up approximately one-third of the population) and the various divisions have commonalities and differences in tradition, <a href="/wiki/Theology" title="Theology">theology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ecclesiology" title="Ecclesiology">church government</a>, doctrine, and language. </p><p>The largest <a href="/wiki/Schism" title="Schism">schism</a> or division in many classification schemes is between the families of <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Christianity" title="Eastern Christianity">Eastern</a> and <a href="/wiki/Western_Christianity" title="Western Christianity">Western Christianity</a>. After these two larger families come distinct branches of Christianity. Most classification schemes list Roman Catholicism, <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestantism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Orthodoxy#Christianity" title="Orthodoxy">Orthodox Christianity</a>, with Orthodox Christianity being divided into <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy" title="Eastern Orthodoxy">Eastern Orthodoxy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oriental_Orthodoxy" class="mw-redirect" title="Oriental Orthodoxy">Oriental Orthodoxy</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_East" title="Church of the East">Church of the East</a>. However Roman Catholicism is to be seen as a distinct denomination within Western Christianity.<sup id="cite_ref-McAuliffe2008_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McAuliffe2008-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Protestantism includes diverse groups such as <a href="/wiki/Adventism" title="Adventism">Adventists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anabaptists" class="mw-redirect" title="Anabaptists">Anabaptists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglicans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baptists" title="Baptists">Baptists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Congregational_church" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregational church">Congregationalists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Methodism" title="Methodism">Methodists</a> (inclusive of the <a href="/wiki/Holiness_movement" title="Holiness movement">Holiness movement</a>), <a href="/wiki/Moravian_Church" title="Moravian Church">Moravians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pentecostalism" title="Pentecostalism">Pentecostals</a>, <a href="/wiki/Presbyterianism" title="Presbyterianism">Presbyterians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Reformed_churches" class="mw-redirect" title="Reformed churches">Reformed</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-McAuliffe2008_53-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McAuliffe2008-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EB2008_16-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB2008-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Melton2005_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Melton2005-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Unitarianism" title="Unitarianism">Unitarians</a> (depending on one's classification scheme) are all a part of the same family but have distinct doctrinal variations within each group—<a href="/wiki/Lutherans" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutherans">Lutherans</a> see themselves not to be a part of the rest of what they call "Reformed Protestantism" due to radical differences in sacramental theology and historical approach to the Reformation itself (both Reformed and Lutherans see their reformation in the sixteenth century to be a 'reforming' of the Catholic Church, not a rejection of it entirely). From these come denominations, which in the West, have independence from the others in their doctrine. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>, due to its <a href="/wiki/Hierarchy" title="Hierarchy">hierarchical</a> structures, is not said to be made up of denominations, rather, it is a single denomination that include kinds of regional councils and individual congregations and church bodies, which do not officially differ from one another in doctrine. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Antiquity">Antiquity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Antiquity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Proto-orthodox_Christianity" title="Proto-orthodox Christianity">Proto-orthodox Christianity</a></div> <p>The initial differences between the East and West traditions stem from socio-cultural and ethno-linguistic divisions in and between the <a href="/wiki/Western_Roman_Empire" title="Western Roman Empire">Western Roman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine empires</a>. Since the West (that is, Western Europe) spoke <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> as its <i><a href="/wiki/Lingua_franca" title="Lingua franca">lingua franca</a></i> and the East (Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and northern Africa) largely used <a href="/wiki/Aramaic" title="Aramaic">Aramaic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Koine_Greek" title="Koine Greek">Koine Greek</a> to transmit writings, theological developments were difficult to translate from one branch to the other. In the course of <a href="/wiki/Ecumenical_council" title="Ecumenical council">ecumenical councils</a> (large gatherings of Christian leaders), some church bodies split from the larger family of Christianity. Many earlier <a href="/wiki/Heresy" title="Heresy">heretical</a> groups either died off for lack of followers or suppression by the early <a href="/wiki/Proto-orthodox_Christianity" title="Proto-orthodox Christianity">proto-orthodox</a> Church at large (such as <a href="/wiki/Apollinarianism" class="mw-redirect" title="Apollinarianism">Apollinarians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Montanism" title="Montanism">Montanists</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ebionites" title="Ebionites">Ebionites</a>). </p><p>Following the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Chalcedon" title="Council of Chalcedon">Council of Chalcedon</a> in 451, the next large split came with the <a href="/wiki/Syriac_Orthodox_Church" title="Syriac Orthodox Church">Syriac</a> and <a href="/wiki/Coptic_Orthodox_Church_of_Alexandria" class="mw-redirect" title="Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria">Coptic</a> churches dividing themselves, with some churches becoming today's <a href="/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Churches" title="Oriental Orthodox Churches">Oriental Orthodox</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Apostolic_Church" title="Armenian Apostolic Church">Armenian Apostolic Church</a>, whose representatives were not able to attend the council did not accept new dogmas and now is also seen as an Oriental Orthodox church. In modern times, there have also been moves towards healing this split, with common Christological statements being made between <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a> and Syriac Patriarch <a href="/wiki/Ignatius_Zakka_I_Iwas" class="mw-redirect" title="Ignatius Zakka I Iwas">Ignatius Zakka I Iwas</a>, as well as between representatives of both Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy. </p><p>There has been a statement that the <a href="/wiki/Chalcedonian_Definition" title="Chalcedonian Definition">Chalcedonian Creed</a> restored Nestorianism, however this is refuted by maintaining the following distinctions associated with the <i>person</i> of Christ: two hypostases, two natures (<a href="/wiki/Nestorian" class="mw-redirect" title="Nestorian">Nestorian</a>); one hypostasis, one nature (<a href="/wiki/Monophysite" class="mw-redirect" title="Monophysite">Monophysite</a>); one hypostasis, two natures (Eastern Orthodox/Roman Catholic).<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Middle_Ages">Middle Ages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Middle Ages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Christian_denomination" title="Special:EditPage/Christian denomination">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">March 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/East-West_Schism" class="mw-redirect" title="East-West Schism">East-West Schism</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lutherstadt_Wittenberg_09-2016_photo06.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Lutherstadt_Wittenberg_09-2016_photo06.jpg/220px-Lutherstadt_Wittenberg_09-2016_photo06.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Lutherstadt_Wittenberg_09-2016_photo06.jpg/330px-Lutherstadt_Wittenberg_09-2016_photo06.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Lutherstadt_Wittenberg_09-2016_photo06.jpg/440px-Lutherstadt_Wittenberg_09-2016_photo06.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3555" data-file-height="3555" /></a><figcaption>The front door of <a href="/wiki/All_Saints%27_Church,_Wittenberg" title="All Saints' Church, Wittenberg">All Saints' Church</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wittenberg" title="Wittenberg">Wittenberg</a>, Germany, where <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther" title="Martin Luther">Martin Luther</a> nailed his <i><a href="/wiki/Ninety-five_Theses" title="Ninety-five Theses">Ninety-five Theses</a></i> on 31st October 1517, sparking the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reformation">Reformation</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In Western Christianity, a handful of geographically isolated movements preceded the spirit of the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reformation">Protestant Reformation</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Cathars" class="mw-redirect" title="Cathars">Cathars</a> were a very strong movement in medieval southwestern France, but did not survive into modern times. In northern <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> and southeastern <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Waldo" title="Peter Waldo">Peter Waldo</a> founded the <a href="/wiki/Waldensians" title="Waldensians">Waldensians</a> in the 12th century. This movement has largely been absorbed by modern-day Protestant groups. In <a href="/wiki/Bohemia" title="Bohemia">Bohemia</a>, a movement in the early 15th century by <a href="/wiki/Jan_Hus" title="Jan Hus">Jan Hus</a> called the <a href="/wiki/Hussite" class="mw-redirect" title="Hussite">Hussites</a> defied Catholic <a href="/wiki/Dogma" title="Dogma">dogma</a>, creating the still-extant <a href="/wiki/Moravian_Church" title="Moravian Church">Moravian Church</a>, a major Protestant denomination. </p><p>Although the church as a whole did not experience any major divisions for centuries afterward, the Eastern and Western groups drifted until the point where patriarchs from both families <a href="/wiki/Excommunication" title="Excommunication">excommunicated</a> one another in about 1054 in what is known as the <a href="/wiki/East-West_Schism" class="mw-redirect" title="East-West Schism">Great Schism</a>. The political and theological reasons for the schism are complex, but one major controversy was the inclusion and acceptance in the West of the <a href="/wiki/Filioque_clause" class="mw-redirect" title="Filioque clause">filioque clause</a> into the <a href="/wiki/Nicene_Creed" title="Nicene Creed">Nicene Creed</a>, which the East viewed as erroneous. Another was the definition of <a href="/wiki/Primacy_of_the_Roman_Pontiff" class="mw-redirect" title="Primacy of the Roman Pontiff">papal primacy</a>. </p><p>Both West and East agreed that the Patriarch of Rome was owed a "<a href="/wiki/Primus_inter_pares" title="Primus inter pares">primacy of honour</a>" by the other patriarchs (those of <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Antioch" title="Antioch">Antioch</a>, <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_in_Christianity" title="Jerusalem in Christianity">Jerusalem</a>), but the West also contended that this primacy extended to jurisdiction, a position rejected by the Eastern patriarchs. Various attempts at dialogue between the two groups would occur, but it was only in the 1960s, under Pope <a href="/wiki/Paul_VI" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul VI">Paul VI</a> and <a href="/wiki/Patriarch_Athenagoras" class="mw-redirect" title="Patriarch Athenagoras">Patriarch Athenagoras</a>, that significant steps began to be made to mend the relationship between the two. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Protestant_Reformation_(16th_century)"><span id="Protestant_Reformation_.2816th_century.29"></span>Protestant Reformation (16th century)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Protestant Reformation (16th century)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reformation">Protestant Reformation</a></div> <p>The Protestant Reformation began with the posting of <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther" title="Martin Luther">Martin Luther</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Ninety-Five_Theses" class="mw-redirect" title="The Ninety-Five Theses">Ninety-Five Theses</a></i> in <a href="/wiki/Saxony" title="Saxony">Saxony</a> on October 31, 1517, written as a set of grievances to reform the pre-Reformation Western Church. <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_(resources)" class="mw-redirect" title="Martin Luther (resources)">Luther's writings</a>, combined with the work of <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Swiss</a> theologian <a href="/wiki/Huldrych_Zwingli" title="Huldrych Zwingli">Huldrych Zwingli</a> and French theologian and politician <a href="/wiki/John_Calvin" title="John Calvin">John Calvin</a> sought to reform existing problems in doctrine and practice. Due to the reactions of ecclesiastical office holders at the time of the reformers, these reformers separated from the Catholic Church, instigating a rift in <a href="/wiki/Western_Christianity" title="Western Christianity">Western Christianity</a>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> declared himself to be supreme head of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Act_of_Supremacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Act of Supremacy">Act of Supremacy</a> in 1534, founding the Church of England, repressing both Lutheran reformers and those loyal to the pope. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer" title="Thomas Cranmer">Thomas Cranmer</a> as <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Archbishop of Canterbury</a> introduced the Reformation, in a form compromising between the Calvinists and Lutherans. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Old_and_Liberal_Catholic_Churches_(19th–20th_centuries)"><span id="Old_and_Liberal_Catholic_Churches_.2819th.E2.80.9320th_centuries.29"></span>Old and Liberal Catholic Churches (19th–20th centuries)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Old and Liberal Catholic Churches (19th–20th centuries)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Old_Catholic_Church" title="Old Catholic Church">Old Catholic Church</a> split from the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> in the 1870s because of the promulgation of the <a href="/wiki/Dogma" title="Dogma">dogma</a> of <a href="/wiki/Papal_infallibility" title="Papal infallibility">papal infallibility</a> as promoted by the <a href="/wiki/First_Vatican_Council" title="First Vatican Council">First Vatican Council</a> of 1869–1870. The term 'Old Catholic' was first used in 1853 to describe the members of the See of Utrecht that were not under Papal authority. The Old Catholic movement grew in America but has not maintained ties with Utrecht, although talks are under way between independent Old Catholic bishops and Utrecht. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Catholic_Church" title="Liberal Catholic Church">Liberal Catholic Church</a> started in 1916 via an Old Catholic bishop in London, bishop Matthew, who consecrated bishop James Wedgwood to the Episcopacy. This stream has in its relatively short existence known many splits, which operate worldwide under several names. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Eastern_Christianity">Eastern Christianity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Eastern Christianity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the Eastern world, the largest body of believers in modern times is the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox Church</a>, sometimes imprecisely called "Greek Orthodox" because from the time of Christ through the Byzantine empire, Greek was its common language. However, the term "<a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church" title="Greek Orthodox Church">Greek Orthodox</a>" actually refers to only one portion of the entire Eastern Orthodox Church. The Eastern Orthodox Church believes itself to be the continuation of the original Christian Church established by <a href="/wiki/Jesus_Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesus Christ">Jesus Christ</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Twelve_Apostles" class="mw-redirect" title="Twelve Apostles">Apostles</a>. The Orthodox and Catholics have been separated since the 11th century, following the <a href="/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Schism" title="East–West Schism">East–West Schism</a>, with each of them saying they represent the original pre-schism Church. </p><p>The Eastern Orthodox consider themselves to be spiritually one body, which is administratively grouped into several <a href="/wiki/Autocephaly" title="Autocephaly">autocephalous</a> jurisdictions (also commonly referred to as "churches", despite being parts of one Church). They do not recognize any single bishop as universal church leader, but rather each bishop governs only his own <a href="/wiki/Diocese" title="Diocese">diocese</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Ecumenical_Patriarch_of_Constantinople" title="Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople">Patriarch of Constantinople</a> is known as the Ecumenical Patriarch, and holds the title "<a href="/wiki/Primus_inter_pares" title="Primus inter pares">first among equals</a>", meaning only that if a great council is called, the patriarch sits as president of the council. He has no more power than any other bishop. Currently, the largest <a href="/wiki/Synod" title="Synod">synod</a> with the most members is the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian Orthodox Church</a>. Others include the ancient Patriarchates of <a href="/wiki/Ecumenical_Patriarchate_of_Constantinople" title="Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople">Constantinople</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church_of_Alexandria" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria">Alexandria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church_of_Antioch" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch">Antioch</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church_of_Jerusalem" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Georgian_Orthodox_Church" title="Georgian Orthodox Church">Georgian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romanian_Orthodox_Church" title="Romanian Orthodox Church">Romanian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Serbian_Orthodox_Church" title="Serbian Orthodox Church">Serbian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Orthodox_Church" title="Bulgarian Orthodox Church">Bulgarian</a> Orthodox churches, and several smaller ones. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Church_of_Saint_John_the_Arab.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Church_of_Saint_John_the_Arab.jpg/225px-Church_of_Saint_John_the_Arab.jpg" decoding="async" width="225" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Church_of_Saint_John_the_Arab.jpg/338px-Church_of_Saint_John_the_Arab.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Church_of_Saint_John_the_Arab.jpg/450px-Church_of_Saint_John_the_Arab.jpg 2x" data-file-width="867" data-file-height="625" /></a><figcaption>A 6th-century Nestorian church, St. John the Arab, in the <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_people" title="Assyrian people">Assyrian</a> village of <a href="/wiki/Andac" class="mw-redirect" title="Andac">Geramon</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The second largest Eastern Christian communion is <a href="/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Churches" title="Oriental Orthodox Churches">Oriental Orthodoxy</a>, which is organized in a similar manner, with six national autocephalous groups and two autonomous bodies, although there are greater internal differences than among the Eastern Orthodox (especially in the diversity of <a href="/wiki/Christian_liturgy" title="Christian liturgy">rites</a> being used). The six autocephalous Oriental Orthodox churches are the <a href="/wiki/Coptic_Orthodox_Church_of_Alexandria" class="mw-redirect" title="Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria">Coptic</a> (Egyptian), <a href="/wiki/Syriac_Orthodox_Church" title="Syriac Orthodox Church">Syriac</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Orthodox_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenian Orthodox Church">Armenian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malankara_Orthodox_Syrian_Church" title="Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church">Malankara</a> (Indian), <a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_Orthodox_Tewahedo_Church" title="Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church">Ethiopian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eritrean_Orthodox_Tewahedo_Church" title="Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church">Eritrean</a> Orthodox churches. In the Aramaic-speaking areas of the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>, the Syriac Orthodox Church has long been dominant. Although the region of modern-day <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eritrea" title="Eritrea">Eritrea</a> has had a strong body of believers since the infancy of Christianity, these regions only gained autocephaly in 1963 and 1994 respectively. The Oriental Orthodox are distinguished from the Eastern Orthodox by doctrinal differences concerning the union of human and divine natures in the person of Jesus Christ, and the two communions separated as a consequence of the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Chalcedon" title="Council of Chalcedon">Council of Chalcedon</a> in the year 451, although there have been recent moves towards reconciliation. Since these groups are relatively obscure in the West, literature on them has sometimes included the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_East" title="Church of the East">Church of the East</a>, which, like the Oriental Orthodox, originated in the 1st century A.D., but has not been in communion with them since before the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Ephesus" title="Council of Ephesus">Council of Ephesus</a> of 431. </p><p>Largely <a href="/wiki/Aniconic" class="mw-redirect" title="Aniconic">aniconic</a>, the Church of the East represents a third Eastern Christian tradition in its own right. In recent centuries, it has split into three Churches. The largest (since the early 20th century) is the <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>-based <a href="/wiki/Chaldean_Catholic_Church" title="Chaldean Catholic Church">Chaldean Catholic Church</a> formed from groups that entered communion with Rome at different times, beginning in 1552. The second-largest is what since 1976<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is officially called the <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_Church_of_the_East" title="Assyrian Church of the East">Assyrian Church of the East</a> and which from 1933 to 2015 was headquartered first in <a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a> and then in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, but whose present Catholicos-Patriarch, <a href="/wiki/Gewargis_III" title="Gewargis III">Gewargis III</a>, elected in 2015, lives in <a href="/wiki/Erbil" title="Erbil">Erbil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>. The third is the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Church_of_the_East" title="Ancient Church of the East">Ancient Church of the East</a>, distinct since 1964 and headed by <a href="/wiki/Addai_II_Giwargis" title="Addai II Giwargis">Addai II Giwargis</a>, resident in Baghdad. </p><p>There are also the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_Churches" title="Eastern Catholic Churches">Eastern Catholic Churches</a>, most of which are counterparts of those listed above, sharing with them the same theological and liturgical traditions, but differing from them in that they recognize the <a href="/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">Bishop of Rome</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Primacy_of_the_Roman_Pontiff" class="mw-redirect" title="Primacy of the Roman Pontiff">universal head of the Church</a>. They are fully part of the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic communion</a>, on the same level juridically as the <a href="/wiki/Latin_Church" title="Latin Church">Latin Church</a>. Most of their members do not describe themselves as "<a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_(term)" title="Roman Catholic (term)"><i>Roman</i> Catholics</a>", a term they associate with membership of the Latin Church, and speak of themselves in relation to whichever Church they belong to: <a href="/wiki/Maronite_Church" title="Maronite Church">Maronites</a>, <a href="/wiki/Melkite_Greek_Catholic_Church" title="Melkite Greek Catholic Church">Melkites</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Greek_Catholic_Church" title="Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church">Ukrainian Catholics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coptic_Catholic_Church" title="Coptic Catholic Church">Coptic Catholics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chaldean_Catholic_Church" title="Chaldean Catholic Church">Chaldean Catholics</a>, etc.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>And finally the smallest Eastern Christian group founded in early 20th century is <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Rite_Lutheranism" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine Rite Lutheranism">Byzantine Rite Lutheranism</a> where accept Byzantine Rite as Church's liturgy while retaining their Lutheran traditions like <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Lutheran_Church" title="Ukrainian Lutheran Church">Ukrainian Lutheran Church</a>. 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mw-collapsible-content"><b>Interdenominational associations</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/World_Council_of_Churches" title="World Council of Churches">World Council of Churches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Evangelical_Alliance" title="World Evangelical Alliance">World Evangelical Alliance</a></li></ul> <p><b>Denominational associations</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friends_World_Committee_for_Consultation" title="Friends World Committee for Consultation">Friends World Committee for Consultation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mennonite_World_Conference" title="Mennonite World Conference">Mennonite World Conference</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglican_Communion" title="Anglican Communion">Anglican Communion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baptist_World_Alliance" title="Baptist World Alliance">Baptist World Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Convention_of_Churches_of_Christ" title="World Convention of Churches of Christ">World Convention of Churches of Christ</a></li> <li><a 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class="new" title="Association of Evangelicals of Africa (page does not exist)">Association of Evangelicals of Africa</a> (AEA)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_Africa_Baptist_Fellowship&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All Africa Baptist Fellowship (page does not exist)">All Africa Baptist Fellowship</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Africa_Lutheran_Communion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Africa Lutheran Communion (page does not exist)">Africa Lutheran Communion</a></li></ul></div></div> <div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border:1px #aaa solid"><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Asia" title="Christianity in Asia">Asia</a></div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Conference_of_Asia" title="Christian Conference of Asia">Christian Conference of Asia</a> (CCA)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evangelical_Fellowship_of_Asia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Evangelical Fellowship of Asia (page does not exist)">Evangelical Fellowship of Asia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asia_Pacific_Baptist_Federation" title="Asia Pacific Baptist Federation">Asia Pacific Baptist Federation</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asia_Lutheran_Communion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Asia Lutheran Communion (page does not exist)">Asia Lutheran Communion</a></li></ul></div></div> <div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border:1px #aaa solid"><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">Caribbean</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Conference_of_Churches" title="Caribbean Conference of Churches">Caribbean Conference of Churches</a> (CCC)</li> <li><a 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Catholics do not describe themselves as a denomination but rather as the original Church, from which all other branches broke off in <a href="/wiki/Schism_(religious)" class="mw-redirect" title="Schism (religious)">schism</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Methodism" title="Methodism">Methodist</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lutheranism" title="Lutheranism">Lutheran</a> churches are generally considered to be Protestant denominations, although strictly speaking, of these three, only the Lutherans took part in the official <a href="/wiki/Protestation_at_Speyer" title="Protestation at Speyer">Protestation at Speyer</a> after the decree of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Diet_of_Speyer" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Diet of Speyer">Second Diet of Speyer</a> mandated the burning of Luther's works and the end of the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reformation">Protestant Reformation</a>. Anglicanism is generally classified as Protestant,<sup id="cite_ref-EB2008_16-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB2008-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Melton2005_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Melton2005-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hanciles2019_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hanciles2019-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> being originally seen as a <i>via media</i>, or middle way between Lutheranism and Reformed Christianity, and since the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Movement" title="Oxford Movement">Oxford Movement</a> of the 19th century, some Anglican writers of Anglo-Catholic churchmanship emphasize a more <a href="/wiki/Catholic_(term)" title="Catholic (term)">catholic</a> understanding of the church and characterize it as being <i>both</i> Protestant and Catholic.<sup id="cite_ref-AEH2003_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AEH2003-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A case is sometimes also made to regard Lutheranism in a similar way, considering the catholic character of its foundational documents (the <a href="/wiki/Augsburg_Confession" title="Augsburg Confession">Augsburg Confession</a> and other documents contained in the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Concord" title="Book of Concord">Book of Concord</a>) and its existence prior to the Anglican, Anabaptist, and <a href="/wiki/Reformed_tradition" class="mw-redirect" title="Reformed tradition">Reformed</a> churches, from which nearly all other Protestant denominations derive.<sup id="cite_ref-Ludwig2016_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ludwig2016-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One central tenet of Catholicism (which is a common point between Catholic, Scandinavian Lutheran, Anglican, Moravian, Orthodox, and some other Churches), is its practice of <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_succession" title="Apostolic succession">apostolic succession</a>. "<a href="/wiki/Apostle" title="Apostle">Apostle</a>" means "one who is sent out". Jesus commissioned the first <a href="/wiki/Twelve_apostles" class="mw-redirect" title="Twelve apostles">twelve apostles</a>, and they, in turn laid hands on subsequent church leaders to ordain (commission) them for ministry. In this manner, Catholics and Anglicans trace their ordained ministers all the way back to the original Twelve. </p><p>Catholics believe that the <a href="/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">Pope</a> has authority which can be traced directly to the apostle <a href="/wiki/Saint_Peter" title="Saint Peter">Peter</a> whom they hold to be the original head of and first Pope of the <a href="/wiki/Christian_Church" title="Christian Church">Church</a>. There are smaller churches, such as the <a href="/wiki/Old_Catholic_Church" title="Old Catholic Church">Old Catholic Church</a> which rejected the definition of <a href="/wiki/Papal_Infallibility" class="mw-redirect" title="Papal Infallibility">Papal Infallibility</a> at the <a href="/wiki/First_Vatican_Council" title="First Vatican Council">First Vatican Council</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Catholic" title="Evangelical Catholic">Evangelical Catholics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Catholicism" title="Anglo-Catholicism">Anglo-Catholics</a>, who are Lutherans and Anglicans that believe that Lutheranism and Anglicanism, respectively, are a continuation of historical <a href="/wiki/Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholicism">Catholicism</a> and who incorporate many Catholic beliefs and practices.<sup id="cite_ref-Ludwig2016_60-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ludwig2016-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Catholic Church refers to itself simply by the terms <i>Catholic</i> and <i>Catholicism</i> (which mean universal). </p><p>Some Catholics, based on a strict interpretation of <i><a href="/wiki/Extra_ecclesiam_nulla_salus" class="mw-redirect" title="Extra ecclesiam nulla salus">extra ecclesiam nulla salus</a></i> ("Outside the Church, there is no salvation"), reject any notion those outside its communion could be regarded as part of any true Catholic Christian faith. This is called <a href="/wiki/Feeneyism" title="Feeneyism">Feeneyism</a>, which is considered a heresy by the Catholic Church, and was rejected by the <a href="/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council" title="Second Vatican Council">Second Vatican Council</a> (1962–1965).<sup id="cite_ref-UnitatisRed_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UnitatisRed-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Catholicism has a hierarchical structure in which supreme authority for matters of faith and practice are the exclusive domain of the Pope, who sits on the Throne of Peter, and the bishops when acting in union with him. </p><p>Each Protestant movement has developed freely, and many have split over theological issues. For instance, a number of movements grew out of spiritual <a href="/wiki/Christian_revival" title="Christian revival">revivals</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Pentecostalism" title="Pentecostalism">Pentecostalism</a>. Doctrinal issues and matters of <a href="/wiki/Conscience" title="Conscience">conscience</a> have also divided Protestants. Still others formed out of administrative issues; <a href="/wiki/Methodism" title="Methodism">Methodism</a> branched off as its own group of denominations when the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> complicated the movement's ability to ordain ministers (it had begun as a movement within the Church of England). In Methodism's case, it has undergone a number of administrative schisms and mergers with other denominations (especially those associated with the <a href="/wiki/Holiness_movement" title="Holiness movement">holiness movement</a> in the 20th century). </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Anabaptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Anabaptist">Anabaptist</a> tradition, made up of the <a href="/wiki/Amish" title="Amish">Amish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hutterites" title="Hutterites">Hutterites</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mennonites" title="Mennonites">Mennonites</a>, rejected the Roman Catholic and Lutheran doctrines of <a href="/wiki/Pedobaptism" class="mw-redirect" title="Pedobaptism">infant baptism</a>; this tradition is also noted for its belief in <a href="/wiki/Pacifism" title="Pacifism">pacifism</a>. Many Anabaptists do not see themselves as Protestant, but a separate tradition altogether.<sup id="cite_ref-Klaasen2004_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Klaasen2004-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some denominations which arose alongside the Western Christian tradition consider themselves Christian, but neither Catholic nor wholly Protestant, such as the <a href="/wiki/Religious_Society_of_Friends" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious Society of Friends">Religious Society of Friends</a> (Quakers). Quakerism began as an evangelical Christian movement in 17th century <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, eschewing priests and all formal Anglican or <a href="/wiki/Catholic_sacraments" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic sacraments">Catholic sacraments</a> in their worship, including many of those practices that remained among the stridently Protestant <a href="/wiki/Puritan" class="mw-redirect" title="Puritan">Puritans</a> such as baptism with water. They were known in America for helping with the Underground Railroad, and like the Mennonites, Quakers traditionally refrain from participation in war. </p><p>Many churches with roots in <a href="/wiki/Restorationism" title="Restorationism">Restorationism</a> reject being identified as Protestant or even as a denomination at all, as they use only the Bible and not creeds, and model the church after what they feel is the first-century church found in scripture; the <a href="/wiki/Churches_of_Christ" title="Churches of Christ">Churches of Christ</a> are one example; <a href="/wiki/African_Initiated_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="African Initiated Church">African Initiated Churches</a>, like <a href="/wiki/Kimbanguism" title="Kimbanguism">Kimbanguism</a>, mostly fall within Protestantism, with varying degrees of syncretism. The measure of mutual acceptance between the denominations and movements varies, but is growing largely due to the <a href="/wiki/Ecumenism" title="Ecumenism">ecumenical movement</a> in the 20th century and overarching Christian bodies such as the <a href="/wiki/World_Council_of_Churches" title="World Council of Churches">World Council of Churches</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Christians_with_Jewish_roots">Christians with Jewish roots</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Christians with Jewish roots"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish Christian">Jewish Christian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Messianic_Judaism" title="Messianic Judaism">Messianic Judaism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Christian_movement" title="Hebrew Christian movement">Hebrew Christian movement</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Messianic_Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Messianic Jews">Messianic Jews</a> maintain a Jewish identity while accepting Jesus as the <a href="/wiki/Messiah" title="Messiah">Messiah</a> and the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a> as authoritative. After the founding of the church, the <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish Christian">disciples of Jesus</a> generally retained their ethnic origins while accepting the <a href="/wiki/Gospel" title="Gospel">Gospel</a> message. The <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Jerusalem" title="Council of Jerusalem">first church council was called in Jerusalem</a> to address just this issue, and the deciding opinion was written by <a href="/wiki/James,_brother_of_Jesus" title="James, brother of Jesus">James the Just</a>, the first bishop of Jerusalem and a pivotal figure in the Christian movement. The history of Messianic Judaism includes many movements and groups and defies any simple classification scheme. </p><p>The 19th century saw at least 250,000 Jews convert to Christianity according to existing records of various societies.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Data from the <a href="/wiki/Pew_Research_Center" title="Pew Research Center">Pew Research Center</a> has it that, as of 2013, about 1.6 million adult <a href="/wiki/American_Jews" title="American Jews">American Jews</a> identify themselves as <a href="/wiki/Christians" title="Christians">Christians</a>, most as <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestants</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pew:_portrait_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pew:_portrait-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the same data, most of the Jews who identify themselves as some sort of Christian (1.6 million) were raised as Jews or are Jews by ancestry.<sup id="cite_ref-pew:_portrait_66-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pew:_portrait-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_history">Modern history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Modern history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Unitarianism">Unitarianism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Unitarianism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Biblical_Unitarianism" class="mw-redirect" title="Biblical Unitarianism">Biblical Unitarianism</a></div> <p>Within Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Transylvania, Hungary and Romania <a href="/wiki/Unitarianism" title="Unitarianism">Unitarian Churches</a> emerged from the <a href="/wiki/Reformed_tradition" class="mw-redirect" title="Reformed tradition">Reformed tradition</a> in the 16th century.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They adopted the <a href="/wiki/Anabaptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Anabaptist">Anabaptist</a> doctrine of <a href="/wiki/Credobaptism" class="mw-redirect" title="Credobaptism">credobaptism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bochenski2013_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bochenski2013-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Unitarian_Church_of_Transylvania" title="Unitarian Church of Transylvania">Unitarian Church of Transylvania</a> is an example of such a denomination that arose in this era and is represented in the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Theological_Institute_of_Cluj" title="Protestant Theological Institute of Cluj">Protestant Theological Institute of Cluj</a>. Due to their rejection of the <a href="/wiki/Athanasian_Creed" title="Athanasian Creed">Athanasian Creed</a> which contains the doctrine of the <a href="/wiki/Trinity" title="Trinity">Trinity</a>, many <a href="/wiki/Nicene_Christianity" title="Nicene Christianity">mainstream Christian Churches</a> do not recognize Unitarians as Christians.<sup id="cite_ref-Cameron1872_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cameron1872-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Restorationism">Restorationism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Restorationism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Second_Great_Awakening">Second Great Awakening</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Second Great Awakening"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Second_Great_Awakening" title="Second Great Awakening">Second Great Awakening</a>, <a href="/wiki/Restorationism" title="Restorationism">Restorationism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Restoration_Movement" title="Restoration Movement">Restoration Movement</a></div> <p>The Stone–Campbell <a href="/wiki/Restoration_Movement" title="Restoration Movement">Restoration Movement</a> began on the American frontier during the <a href="/wiki/Second_Great_Awakening" title="Second Great Awakening">Second Great Awakening</a> (1790–1870) of the early 19th century. The movement sought to restore the church and "the unification of all Christians in a single body patterned after the church of the New Testament."<sup id="cite_ref-I_Just_Want_to_Be_a_Christian_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-I_Just_Want_to_Be_a_Christian-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 54">: 54 </span></sup> Members do not identify as <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> but simply as Christian.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Neither_Catholic,_Protestant_nor_Jew_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Neither_Catholic,_Protestant_nor_Jew-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Encyclopedia_of_Religion_in_the_South_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia_of_Religion_in_the_South-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 213">: 213 </span></sup> </p><p>The Restoration Movement developed from several independent efforts to return to <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Age" class="mw-redirect" title="Apostolic Age">apostolic Christianity</a>, but two groups, which independently developed similar approaches to the Christian faith, were particularly important.<sup id="cite_ref-Redigging_the_Wells_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Redigging_the_Wells-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 27–32">: 27–32 </span></sup> The first, led by <a href="/wiki/Barton_W._Stone" title="Barton W. Stone">Barton W. Stone</a>, began at <a href="/wiki/Cane_Ridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Cane Ridge">Cane Ridge</a>, Kentucky and called themselves simply as "<a href="/wiki/Christians_(Stone_Movement)" title="Christians (Stone Movement)">Christians</a>". The second began in western Pennsylvania and Virginia (now West Virginia) and was led by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Campbell_(clergyman)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Campbell (clergyman)">Thomas Campbell</a> and his son, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Campbell_(clergyman)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Campbell (clergyman)">Alexander Campbell</a>; they used the name "<a href="/wiki/Disciples_of_Christ_(Campbell_Movement)" title="Disciples of Christ (Campbell Movement)">Disciples of Christ</a>". Both groups sought to restore the whole Christian church on the pattern set forth in the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a>, and both believed that <a href="/wiki/Creed" title="Creed">creeds</a> kept Christianity divided. In 1832 they joined in fellowship with a handshake. </p><p>Among other things, they were united in the belief that <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> is the Christ, the <a href="/wiki/Son_of_God" title="Son of God">Son of God</a>; that Christians should celebrate the <a href="/wiki/Eucharist" title="Eucharist">Lord's Supper</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Sabbath_in_Christianity" title="Sabbath in Christianity">first day of each week</a>; and that <a href="/wiki/Believer%27s_baptism" title="Believer's baptism">baptism of adult believers</a> by <a href="/wiki/Immersion_baptism" title="Immersion baptism">immersion in water</a> is a necessary condition for <a href="/wiki/Salvation" title="Salvation">salvation</a>. Because the founders wanted to abandon all denominational labels, they used the biblical names for the followers of Jesus.<sup id="cite_ref-McAlister_&_Tucker,_1975_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McAlister_&_Tucker,_1975-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 27">: 27 </span></sup> Both groups promoted a return to the purposes of the <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_the_1st_century" title="Christianity in the 1st century">1st-century churches</a> as described in the New Testament. One historian of the movement has argued that it was primarily a unity movement, with the restoration motif playing a subordinate role.<sup id="cite_ref-Garrett_2002_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Garrett_2002-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 8">: 8 </span></sup> </p><p>The Restoration Movement has since divided into multiple separate groups. There are three main branches in the US: the <a href="/wiki/Churches_of_Christ" title="Churches of Christ">Churches of Christ</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Christian_churches_and_churches_of_Christ" title="Christian churches and churches of Christ">Christian churches and churches of Christ</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Christian_Church_(Disciples_of_Christ)" title="Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)">Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)</a>. Other U.S.-based groups affiliated with the movement are the <a href="/wiki/International_Churches_of_Christ" title="International Churches of Christ">International Churches of Christ</a> and the <a href="/wiki/International_Christian_Churches" class="mw-redirect" title="International Christian Churches">International Christian Churches</a>. Non-U.S. groups include the <a href="/wiki/Churches_of_Christ_in_Australia" title="Churches of Christ in Australia">Churches of Christ in Australia</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Christian_Church_in_Canada" title="Evangelical Christian Church in Canada">Evangelical Christian Church in Canada</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Churches_of_Christ_in_Europe" title="Churches of Christ in Europe">Churches of Christ in Europe</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Brethren" title="Plymouth Brethren">Plymouth Brethren</a> are a similar though historically unrelated group which originated in the United Kingdom. Some churches, such as <a href="/wiki/Churches_of_Christ" title="Churches of Christ">Churches of Christ</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Brethren" title="Plymouth Brethren">Plymouth Brethren</a> reject formal ties with other churches within the movement. </p><p>Other Christian groups originating during the Second Great Awakening including the <a href="/wiki/Millerites" class="mw-redirect" title="Millerites">Adventist movement</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses" title="Jehovah's Witnesses">Jehovah's Witnesses</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Christian_Science" title="Christian Science">Christian Science</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> founded within fifty years of one another, all consider themselves to be restorative of primitive Christianity and the early church. Some Baptist churches with <a href="/wiki/Landmarkism" title="Landmarkism">Landmarkist</a> views have similar beliefs concerning their connection with primitive Christianity.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Latter_Day_Saint_movement">Latter Day Saint movement</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Latter Day Saint movement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Latter_Day_Saint_movement" title="Latter Day Saint movement">Latter Day Saint movement</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mormonism" title="Mormonism">Mormonism</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_denominations_in_the_Latter_Day_Saint_movement" title="List of denominations in the Latter Day Saint movement">List of denominations in the Latter Day Saint movement</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mormonism_and_Christianity" class="mw-redirect" title="Mormonism and Christianity">Mormonism and Christianity</a></div> <p>Most Latter Day Saint denominations are derived from the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Christ_(Latter_Day_Saints)" title="Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints)">Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints)</a> established by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Smith" title="Joseph Smith">Joseph Smith</a> in 1830, which is categorized as a <a href="/wiki/Restorationist" class="mw-redirect" title="Restorationist">Restorationist</a> denomination.<sup id="cite_ref-OCRT2012_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OCRT2012-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The largest worldwide denomination is <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a>, colloquially referred to as <a href="/wiki/Mormonism" title="Mormonism">Mormonism</a>. Various considerably smaller sects broke from this movement after its relocation to the Rocky Mountains in the mid-1800s. Several of these broke away over the abandonment of practicing <a href="/wiki/Mormonism_and_polygamy" title="Mormonism and polygamy">plural marriage</a> after the <a href="/wiki/1890_Manifesto" title="1890 Manifesto">1890 Manifesto</a>. Most of the "Prairie Saint" denominations (see below) were established after <a href="/wiki/Death_of_Joseph_Smith" class="mw-redirect" title="Death of Joseph Smith">Smith's death</a> by the remnants of the Latter Day Saints who did not go west with <a href="/wiki/Brigham_Young" title="Brigham Young">Brigham Young</a>. Many of these opposed some of the 1840s theological developments in favor of 1830s theological understandings and practices. Other denominations are defined by either a belief in Joseph Smith as a <a href="/wiki/Prophet" title="Prophet">prophet</a> or acceptance of the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Mormon" title="Book of Mormon">Book of Mormon</a> as <a href="/wiki/Religious_text" title="Religious text">scripture</a>. <a href="/wiki/Mormons" title="Mormons">Mormons</a> generally consider themselves to be <a href="/wiki/Restorationism" title="Restorationism">restorationist</a>, believing that Smith, as <a href="/wiki/Prophet,_seer,_and_revelator" class="mw-redirect" title="Prophet, seer, and revelator">prophet, seer, and revelator</a>, restored the original and true Church of Christ to the earth. Some Latter Day Saint denominations are regarded by other Christians as being <a href="/wiki/Nontrinitarianism" title="Nontrinitarianism">nontrinitarian</a> or even non-Christian, but the Latter Day Saints are predominantly in disagreement with these statements. Latter Day Saints see themselves as believing in a <a href="/wiki/God_in_Mormonism" title="God in Mormonism">Godhead</a> comprising the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost as separate personages united in purpose. Latter Day Saints regard traditional definitions of the <a href="/wiki/Trinity" title="Trinity">Trinity</a> as aberrations of true doctrine and emblematic of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Apostasy" title="Great Apostasy">Great Apostasy</a><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but they do not accept certain trinitarian definitions in the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Christian_creeds" title="List of Christian creeds">post-apostolic creeds</a>, such as the <a href="/wiki/Athanasian_Creed" title="Athanasian Creed">Athanasian Creed</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spiritual_Christianity">Spiritual Christianity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Spiritual Christianity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Spiritual_Christianity" title="Spiritual Christianity">Spiritual Christianity</a>, inclusive of the <a href="/wiki/Molokan" class="mw-redirect" title="Molokan">Molokans</a>, <i>Dukh-i-zhizniki</i>, <a href="/wiki/Doukhobors" title="Doukhobors">Doukhobors</a>, and numerous tribal faiths, emerged in Russia, each containing a unique tradition.<sup id="cite_ref-Campbell2000_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campbell2000-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Doukhobor have maintained close association with <a href="/wiki/Mennonites" title="Mennonites">Mennonite Anabaptist Christians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Quakers" title="Quakers">Quaker Christians</a> due to analogous religious practices; all of these groups are furthermore collectively considered to be <a href="/wiki/Peace_churches" title="Peace churches">peace churches</a> due to their belief in <a href="/wiki/Christian_pacifism" title="Christian pacifism">pacifism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FlemingRowan2004_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FlemingRowan2004-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DyckMartin_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DyckMartin-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Fahlbusch2008_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fahlbusch2008-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_movements">Other movements</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Other movements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Protestant denominations have shown a strong tendency towards diversification and fragmentation, giving rise to numerous churches and movements, especially in Anglo-American religious history, where the process is cast in terms of a series of "<a href="/wiki/Great_Awakening" title="Great Awakening">Great Awakenings</a>". </p><p>The most recent wave of diversification, known as the <a href="/wiki/Fourth_Great_Awakening" title="Fourth Great Awakening">Fourth Great Awakening</a> took place during the 1960s to 1980s and resulted in phenomena such as the <a href="/wiki/Charismatic_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Charismatic Movement">Charismatic Movement</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Jesus_movement" title="Jesus movement">Jesus movement</a>, and a number of <a href="/wiki/Parachurch_organization" title="Parachurch organization">parachurch organizations</a> based in <a href="/wiki/Evangelicalism" title="Evangelicalism">Evangelicalism</a>. </p><p>Many independent churches and movements consider themselves to be <a href="/wiki/Nondenominational" class="mw-redirect" title="Nondenominational">non-denominational</a>, but may vary greatly in doctrine. Many of these, like the <a href="/wiki/Local_churches_(affiliation)" title="Local churches (affiliation)">local churches</a> movement, reflect the core teachings of traditional Christianity. Others however, such as <a href="/wiki/The_Way_International" title="The Way International">The Way International</a>, have been denounced as cults by the <a href="/wiki/Christian_anti-cult_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian anti-cult movement">Christian anti-cult movement</a>. Further, others may have similar doctrine to mainline churches but incorporate a multi-faith and ecumenical model such as the Interfaith-Ecumenical Church (IEC) that is based entirely in a virtual and international model. </p><p>Two movements, which are entirely unrelated in their founding, but share a common element of an additional Messiah (or incarnation of Christ) are the <a href="/wiki/Unification_Church" title="Unification Church">Unification Church</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Rastafari_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Rastafari movement">Rastafari movement</a>. These movements fall outside of traditional <a href="/wiki/Taxonomy_(general)" class="mw-redirect" title="Taxonomy (general)">taxonomies</a> of Christian groups, though both cite the Christian Bible as a basis for their beliefs. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Syncretism" title="Syncretism">Syncretism</a> of Christian beliefs with local and tribal religions is a phenomenon that occurs throughout the world. An example of this is the <a href="/wiki/Native_American_Church" title="Native American Church">Native American Church</a>. The ceremonies of this group are strongly tied to the use of <a href="/wiki/Peyote" title="Peyote">peyote</a>. (Parallels may be drawn here with the Rastafari <a href="/wiki/Entheogen" title="Entheogen">spiritual use</a> of <a href="/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)" title="Cannabis (drug)">cannabis</a>.) While traditions vary from tribe to tribe, they often include a belief in Jesus as a Native American cultural hero, an intercessor for man, or a spiritual guardian; belief in the Bible; and an association of Jesus with peyote. </p><p>There are also some Christians that reject organized religion altogether. Some <a href="/wiki/Christian_anarchism" title="Christian anarchism">Christian anarchists</a>—often those of a Protestant background—believe that the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Jesus" title="Ministry of Jesus">original teachings of Jesus</a> were corrupted by Roman statism (compare <a href="/wiki/Early_Christianity" title="Early Christianity">Early Christianity</a> and <a href="/wiki/State_church_of_the_Roman_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="State church of the Roman Empire">State church of the Roman Empire</a>), and that earthly authority such as government, or indeed the established Church, do not and should not have power over them. Following "<a href="/wiki/Ethic_of_reciprocity" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethic of reciprocity">The Golden Rule</a>", many oppose the use of physical force in any circumstance, and advocate <a href="/wiki/Nonviolence" title="Nonviolence">nonviolence</a>. The Russian novelist <a href="/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy" title="Leo Tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a> wrote <i><a href="/wiki/The_Kingdom_of_God_Is_Within_You" title="The Kingdom of God Is Within You">The Kingdom of God Is Within You</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was a Christian anarchist. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1266661725">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portalbox portalborder portalright"> <li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:P_christianity.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/P_christianity.svg/31px-P_christianity.svg.png" decoding="async" width="31" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/P_christianity.svg/47px-P_christianity.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/P_christianity.svg/62px-P_christianity.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="360" /></a></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Christianity" title="Portal:Christianity">Christianity portal</a></span></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christian_tradition" title="Christian tradition">Christian tradition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Church" title="Great Church">Great Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations" title="List of Christian denominations">List of Christian denominations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations_by_number_of_members" title="List of Christian denominations by number of members">List of Christian denominations by number of members</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Oxford Dictionary's full list of synonyms for "denomination" includes: "religious group, sect, Church, cult, movement, faith community, body, persuasion, religious persuasion, communion, order, fraternity, brotherhood, sisterhood, school; faith, creed, belief, religious belief, religion. rare: sodality."</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Ellwood1-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Ellwood1_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFEllwood2008" class="citation book cs1">Ellwood, Robert S. 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Wipf and Stock Publishers. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4982-3145-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4982-3145-9"><bdi>978-1-4982-3145-9</bdi></a>. <q>The Second Great Awakening (1790-1840) spurred a renewed interest in primitive Christianity. What is known as the Restoration Movement of the nineteenth century gave birth to an array of groups: Mormons (The Latter Day Saint Movement), the Churches of Christ, Adventists, and Jehovah's Witnesses. Though these groups demonstrate a breathtaking diversity on the continuum of Christianity they share an intense restorationist impulse. 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Wipf and Stock Publishers. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4982-3145-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4982-3145-9"><bdi>978-1-4982-3145-9</bdi></a>. <q>The Second Great Awakening (1790-1840) spurred a renewed interest in primitive Christianity. What is known as the Restoration Movement of the nineteenth century gave birth to an array of groups: Mormons (The Latter Day Saint Movement), the Churches of Christ, Adventists, and Jehovah's Witnesses. Though these groups demonstrate a breathtaking diversity on the continuum of Christianity they share an intense restorationist impulse. 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Evangelicals have long included many Anglicans, and by 1967 Anglican evangelicalism was defining the movement in Britain.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Oxford+History+of+Protestant+Dissenting+Traditions%2C+Volume+IV%3A+The+Twentieth+Century%3A+Traditions+in+a+Global+Context&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2019&rft.isbn=978-0-19-251821-7&rft.aulast=Hanciles&rft.aufirst=Jehu+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-AEH2003-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-AEH2003_59-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Anglican and Episcopal History</i>. Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. 2003. p. 15. <q>Others had made similar observations, Patrick McGrath commenting that the Church of England was not a middle way between Roman Catholic and Protestant, but "between different forms of Protestantism," and William Monter describing the Church of England as "a unique style of Protestantism, a via media between the Reformed and Lutheran traditions." MacCulloch has described Cranmer as seeking a middle way between Zurich and Wittenberg but elsewhere remarks that the Church of England was "nearer Zurich and Geneva than Wittenberg.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Anglican+and+Episcopal+History&rft.pages=15&rft.pub=Historical+Society+of+the+Episcopal+Church&rft.date=2003&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Ludwig2016-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Ludwig2016_60-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ludwig2016_60-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLudwig2016" class="citation book cs1">Ludwig, Alan (12 September 2016). <i>Luther's Catholic Reformation</i>. <a href="/wiki/The_Lutheran_Witness" class="mw-redirect" title="The Lutheran Witness">The Lutheran Witness</a>. <q>When the Lutherans presented the Augsburg Confession before Emperor Charles V in 1530, they carefully showed that each article of faith and practice was true first of all to Holy Scripture, and then also to the teaching of the church fathers and the councils and even the canon law of the Church of Rome. They boldly claim, "This is about the Sum of our Doctrine, in which, as can be seen, there is nothing that varies from the Scriptures, or from the Church Catholic, or from the Church of Rome as known from its writers" (AC XXI Conclusion 1). The underlying thesis of the Augsburg Confession is that the faith as confessed by Luther and his followers is nothing new, but the true catholic faith, and that their churches represent the true catholic or universal church. In fact, it is actually the Church of Rome that has departed from the ancient faith and practice of the catholic church (see AC XXIII 13, XXVIII 72 and other places).</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Luther%27s+Catholic+Reformation&rft.pub=The+Lutheran+Witness&rft.date=2016-09-12&rft.aulast=Ludwig&rft.aufirst=Alan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-UnitatisRed-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-UnitatisRed_61-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19641121_unitatis-redintegratio_en.html">"Unitatis redintegratio"</a>. <i>www.vatican.va</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130306113628/https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19641121_unitatis-redintegratio_en.html">Archived</a> from the original on 6 March 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">10 May</span> 2023</span>. <q>It remains true that all who have been justified by faith in Baptism are members of Christ's body, and have a right to be called Christian, and so are correctly accepted as brothers by the children of the Catholic Church.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.vatican.va&rft.atitle=Unitatis+redintegratio&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vatican.va%2Farchive%2Fhist_councils%2Fii_vatican_council%2Fdocuments%2Fvat-ii_decree_19641121_unitatis-redintegratio_en.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Klaasen2004-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Klaasen2004_62-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKlaasen2004" class="citation web cs1">Klaasen, Walter (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-5/anabaptism-neither-catholic-nor-protestant.html">"Anabaptism: Neither Catholic Nor Protestant"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200728155956/https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-5/anabaptism-neither-catholic-nor-protestant.html">Archived</a> from the original on 28 July 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 May</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Anabaptism%3A+Neither+Catholic+Nor+Protestant&rft.date=2004&rft.aulast=Klaasen&rft.aufirst=Walter&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christianitytoday.com%2Fhistory%2Fissues%2Fissue-5%2Fanabaptism-neither-catholic-nor-protestant.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcGrath" class="citation cs2">McGrath, William, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161227060547/http://www.cbc4me.org/articles/Baptist/04-McGrath.pdf"><i>The Anabaptists: Neither Catholic nor Protestant</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>, Hartville, Ohio, United States: The Fellowship Messenger, archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbc4me.org/articles/Baptist/04-McGrath.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 27 December 2016</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Anabaptists%3A+Neither+Catholic+nor+Protestant&rft.place=Hartville%2C+Ohio%2C+United+States&rft.pub=The+Fellowship+Messenger&rft.aulast=McGrath&rft.aufirst=William&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc4me.org%2Farticles%2FBaptist%2F04-McGrath.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGundryGoldberg2003" class="citation book cs1">Gundry, Stanley N; Goldberg, Louis (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=sYfcuBdLqyEC&pg=PA24"><i>How Jewish is Christianity?: 2 views on the Messianic movement</i></a>. Zondervan. p. 24. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780310244905" title="Special:BookSources/9780310244905"><bdi>9780310244905</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=How+Jewish+is+Christianity%3F%3A+2+views+on+the+Messianic+movement&rft.pages=24&rft.pub=Zondervan&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=9780310244905&rft.aulast=Gundry&rft.aufirst=Stanley+N&rft.au=Goldberg%2C+Louis&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DsYfcuBdLqyEC%26pg%3DPA24&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-65">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLipka2013" class="citation web cs1">Lipka, Michael (2013-10-02). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/10/02/how-many-jews-are-there-in-the-united-states/">"How many Jews are there in the United States?"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Pew_Research_Center" title="Pew Research Center">Pew Research Center</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210529104046/https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/10/02/how-many-jews-are-there-in-the-united-states/">Archived</a> from the original on 2021-05-29<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2019-03-18</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Pew+Research+Center&rft.atitle=How+many+Jews+are+there+in+the+United+States%3F&rft.date=2013-10-02&rft.aulast=Lipka&rft.aufirst=Michael&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pewresearch.org%2Ffact-tank%2F2013%2F10%2F02%2Fhow-many-jews-are-there-in-the-united-states%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-pew:_portrait-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-pew:_portrait_66-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-pew:_portrait_66-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pewforum.org/2013/10/01/chapter-1-population-estimates/">"A PORTRAIT OF JEWISH AMERICANS: Chapter 1: Population Estimates"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Pew_Research_Center" title="Pew Research Center">Pew Research Center</a></i>. October 2013. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190505093610/https://www.pewforum.org/2013/10/01/chapter-1-population-estimates/">Archived</a> from the original on 2019-05-05<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2019-03-18</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Pew+Research+Center&rft.atitle=A+PORTRAIT+OF+JEWISH+AMERICANS%3A+Chapter+1%3A+Population+Estimates&rft.date=2013-10&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pewforum.org%2F2013%2F10%2F01%2Fchapter-1-population-estimates%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaltz2013" class="citation news cs1">Maltz, Judy (2013-09-30). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/.premium-1.549713">"American-Jewish Population Rises to 6.8 Million"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Haaretz" title="Haaretz">Haaretz</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171129115904/https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/.premium-1.549713">Archived</a> from the original on 2017-11-29<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2019-03-18</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Haaretz&rft.atitle=American-Jewish+Population+Rises+to+6.8+Million&rft.date=2013-09-30&rft.aulast=Maltz&rft.aufirst=Judy&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haaretz.com%2Fjewish%2Fnews%2F.premium-1.549713&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFahlbuschBromileyLochmanMbiti2008" class="citation book cs1">Fahlbusch, Erwin; Bromiley, Geoffrey William; Lochman, Jan Milic; Mbiti, John; Pelikan, Jaroslav (14 February 2008). <i>The Encyclodedia of Christianity, Vol. 5</i>. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 603. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8028-2417-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8028-2417-2"><bdi>978-0-8028-2417-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Encyclodedia+of+Christianity%2C+Vol.+5&rft.pages=603&rft.pub=Wm.+B.+Eerdmans+Publishing&rft.date=2008-02-14&rft.isbn=978-0-8028-2417-2&rft.aulast=Fahlbusch&rft.aufirst=Erwin&rft.au=Bromiley%2C+Geoffrey+William&rft.au=Lochman%2C+Jan+Milic&rft.au=Mbiti%2C+John&rft.au=Pelikan%2C+Jaroslav&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-69">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">J. Gordon Melton, <i>Encyclopedia of Protestantism</i>, 2005, p. 543: "Unitarianism – The word <i>unitarian</i> [italics] means one who believes in the oneness of God; historically it refers to those in the Christian community who rejected the doctrine of the Trinity (one God expressed in three persons). Non-Trinitarian Protestant churches emerged in the 16th century in ITALY, POLAND, and TRANSYLVANIA."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Bochenski2013-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Bochenski2013_70-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBochenski2013" class="citation book cs1">Bochenski, Michael I. (14 March 2013). <i>Transforming Faith Communities: A Comparative Study of Radical Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism and Late Twentieth-Century Latin America</i>. Wipf and Stock Publishers. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-62189-597-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-62189-597-8"><bdi>978-1-62189-597-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Transforming+Faith+Communities%3A+A+Comparative+Study+of+Radical+Christianity+in+Sixteenth-Century+Anabaptism+and+Late+Twentieth-Century+Latin+America&rft.pub=Wipf+and+Stock+Publishers&rft.date=2013-03-14&rft.isbn=978-1-62189-597-8&rft.aulast=Bochenski&rft.aufirst=Michael+I.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Cameron1872-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Cameron1872_71-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCameron1872" class="citation book cs1">Cameron, Archibald Alexander (1872). <i>Protestantism and Its Relation to the Moral, Intellectual and Spiritual Developments of Modern Times: A Lecture Delivered in the Baptist Chapel, Ottawa, on Sunday Evening, Jan. 21st, 1872</i>. Joseph Loveday. p. 12.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Protestantism+and+Its+Relation+to+the+Moral%2C+Intellectual+and+Spiritual+Developments+of+Modern+Times%3A+A+Lecture+Delivered+in+the+Baptist+Chapel%2C+Ottawa%2C+on+Sunday+Evening%2C+Jan.+21st%2C+1872&rft.pages=12&rft.pub=Joseph+Loveday&rft.date=1872&rft.aulast=Cameron&rft.aufirst=Archibald+Alexander&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-I_Just_Want_to_Be_a_Christian-72"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-I_Just_Want_to_Be_a_Christian_72-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Rubel_Shelly" title="Rubel Shelly">Rubel Shelly</a>, <i>I Just Want to Be a Christian</i>, 20th Century Christian, Nashville, Tennessee 1984, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-89098-021-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-89098-021-7">0-89098-021-7</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-73"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-73">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"The church of Jesus Christ is non-denominational. It is neither Catholic, Jewish nor Protestant. It was not founded in 'protest' of any institution, and it is not the product of the 'Restoration' or 'Reformation.' It is the product of the seed of the kingdom (Luke 8:11ff) grown in the hearts of men." V. E. Howard, <i>What Is the Church of Christ?</i> 4th Edition (Revised), 1971, page 29</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Neither_Catholic,_Protestant_nor_Jew-74"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Neither_Catholic,_Protestant_nor_Jew_74-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Batsell Barrett Baxter and Carroll Ellis, <i>Neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jew</i>, tract, Church of Christ (1960) ASIN: B00073CQPM. According to Richard Thomas Hughes in <i>Reviving the Ancient Faith: The Story of Churches of Christ in America,</i> Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1996 (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8028-4086-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-8028-4086-8">0-8028-4086-8</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8028-4086-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8028-4086-8">978-0-8028-4086-8</a>), this is "arguably the most widely distributed tract ever published by the Churches of Christ or anyone associated with that tradition."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Encyclopedia_of_Religion_in_the_South-75"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Encyclopedia_of_Religion_in_the_South_75-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Samuel S. Hill, Charles H. Lippy, Charles Reagan Wilson, <i>Encyclopedia of Religion in the South</i>, <a href="/wiki/Mercer_University_Press" title="Mercer University Press">Mercer University Press</a>, 2005, (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-86554-758-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-86554-758-0">0-86554-758-0</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-86554-758-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-86554-758-2">978-0-86554-758-2</a>) 854 pages</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Redigging_the_Wells-76"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Redigging_the_Wells_76-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Monroe E. Hawley, <i>Redigging the Wells: Seeking Undenominational Christianity</i>, Quality Publications, Abilene, Texas, 1976, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-89137-512-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-89137-512-0">0-89137-512-0</a> (paper), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-89137-513-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-89137-513-9">0-89137-513-9</a> (cloth)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-McAlister_&_Tucker,_1975-77"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-McAlister_&_Tucker,_1975_77-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">McAlister, Lester G. and Tucker, William E. (1975), <i>Journey in Faith: A History of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)</i>, St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8272-1703-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8272-1703-4">978-0-8272-1703-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Garrett_2002-78"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Garrett_2002_78-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Leroy Garrett, <i>The Stone–Campbell Movement: The Story of the American Restoration Movement</i>, College Press, 2002, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-89900-909-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-89900-909-3">0-89900-909-3</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-89900-909-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-89900-909-4">978-0-89900-909-4</a>, 573 pages</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-79"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-79">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAlbin" class="citation book cs1">Albin, Barry. <i>A Spiritual History of the Western Tradition</i>. p. 124.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Spiritual+History+of+the+Western+Tradition&rft.pages=124&rft.aulast=Albin&rft.aufirst=Barry&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-80"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-80">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVan_Voorst,_Robert_E.2012" class="citation book cs1">Van Voorst, Robert E. (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=QvNWxEEaf50C&pg=PT303"><i>RELG: World (with Religion CourseMate with eBook Printed Access Card)</i></a>. Cengage Learning. p. 288. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-1117-2620-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-1117-2620-1"><bdi>978-1-1117-2620-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=RELG%3A+World+%28with+Religion+CourseMate+with+eBook+Printed+Access+Card%29&rft.pages=288&rft.pub=Cengage+Learning&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-1-1117-2620-1&rft.au=Van+Voorst%2C+Robert+E.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DQvNWxEEaf50C%26pg%3DPT303&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-81"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-81">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEddy" class="citation book cs1">Eddy, Mary Baker. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18039"><i>Manual of the Mother Church</i></a>. CSPS. p. 17. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200728125557/http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18039">Archived</a> from the original on 28 July 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 February</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Manual+of+the+Mother+Church&rft.pages=17&rft.pub=CSPS&rft.aulast=Eddy&rft.aufirst=Mary+Baker&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gutenberg.org%2Febooks%2F18039&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-82"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-82">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAlbanese" class="citation book cs1">Albanese, Catherine. <i>America: Religions and Religion</i>. <a href="/wiki/Cengage_Learning" class="mw-redirect" title="Cengage Learning">Cengage Learning</a>. p. 122.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=America%3A+Religions+and+Religion&rft.pages=122&rft.pub=Cengage+Learning&rft.aulast=Albanese&rft.aufirst=Catherine&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-83"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-83">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130531162806/http://mormon.org/articles-of-faith">"Articles of Faith, no. 1"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mormon.org/articles-of-faith">the original</a> on 31 May 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">3 January</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Articles+of+Faith%2C+no.+1&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmormon.org%2Farticles-of-faith&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Campbell2000-84"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Campbell2000_84-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCampbell2000" class="citation book cs1">Campbell, Ted A. (20 March 2000). <i>The Religion of the Heart</i>. <a href="/wiki/Wipf_and_Stock_Publishers" class="mw-redirect" title="Wipf and Stock Publishers">Wipf and Stock Publishers</a>. p. 138. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-57910-433-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-57910-433-7"><bdi>978-1-57910-433-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Religion+of+the+Heart&rft.pages=138&rft.pub=Wipf+and+Stock+Publishers&rft.date=2000-03-20&rft.isbn=978-1-57910-433-7&rft.aulast=Campbell&rft.aufirst=Ted+A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FlemingRowan2004-85"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FlemingRowan2004_85-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFlemingRowanChambers2004" class="citation book cs1">Fleming, John A.; Rowan, Michael J.; Chambers, James Albert (2004). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/folkfurnitureofc00flem/page/4"><i>Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians</i></a></span>. <a href="/wiki/University_of_Alberta" title="University of Alberta">University of Alberta</a>. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/folkfurnitureofc00flem/page/4">4</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780888644183" title="Special:BookSources/9780888644183"><bdi>9780888644183</bdi></a>. <q>The English Quakers, who had made contact with the Doukhobors earlier, as well as the Philadelphia Society of Friends, also determined to help with their emigration from Russia to some other country—the only action which seemed possible.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Folk+Furniture+of+Canada%27s+Doukhobors%2C+Hutterites%2C+Mennonites+and+Ukrainians&rft.pages=4&rft.pub=University+of+Alberta&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=9780888644183&rft.aulast=Fleming&rft.aufirst=John+A.&rft.au=Rowan%2C+Michael+J.&rft.au=Chambers%2C+James+Albert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ffolkfurnitureofc00flem%2Fpage%2F4&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-DyckMartin-86"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-DyckMartin_86-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDyckMartin" class="citation book cs1">Dyck, Cornelius J.; Martin, Dennis D. <i>The Mennonite Encyclopedia</i>. Mennonite Brethren Publishing House. p. 107.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Mennonite+Encyclopedia&rft.pages=107&rft.pub=Mennonite+Brethren+Publishing+House&rft.aulast=Dyck&rft.aufirst=Cornelius+J.&rft.au=Martin%2C+Dennis+D.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Fahlbusch2008-87"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Fahlbusch2008_87-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFahlbusch2008" class="citation book cs1">Fahlbusch, Erwin (14 February 2008). <i>The Encyclodedia of Christianity</i>. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 208. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780802824172" title="Special:BookSources/9780802824172"><bdi>9780802824172</bdi></a>. <q>The only contact with Mennonites was the period 1802–1841 when they lived in the Molotschna, where Johann Cornies (q.v.) rendered them considerable assistance.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Encyclodedia+of+Christianity&rft.pages=208&rft.pub=Wm.+B.+Eerdmans+Publishing&rft.date=2008-02-14&rft.isbn=9780802824172&rft.aulast=Fahlbusch&rft.aufirst=Erwin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+denomination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-88"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-88">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kingdomnow.org/withinyou.html">Leo Tolstoy – The Kingdom of God is Within You</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120205200941/http://www.kingdomnow.org/withinyou.html">Archived</a> 2012-02-05 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. 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Retrieved on 2010-11-03.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_denomination&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ecumenism.net/denom/">Denominational links</a> from the Ecumenism in Canada site</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbox{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox,.mw-parser-output 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denominations">See list</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy" title="Eastern Orthodoxy">Eastern<br />Orthodox</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ecumenical_Patriarchate_of_Constantinople" title="Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople">Constantinople</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Finnish_Orthodox_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Finnish Orthodox Church">Finnish</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church_of_Alexandria" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria">Alexandria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church_of_Antioch" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch">Antioch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church_of_Jerusalem" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Orthodox_Church" title="Chinese Orthodox Church">Chinese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Estonian_Orthodox_Church_of_Moscow_Patriarchate" class="mw-redirect" title="Estonian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate">Estonian (Moscow)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_Orthodox_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese Orthodox Church">Japanese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church_Outside_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia">Outside Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Orthodox_Church_(Moscow_Patriarchate)" title="Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)">Ukrainian (Moscow)</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serbian_Orthodox_Church" title="Serbian Orthodox Church">Serbian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_Orthodox_Church" title="Romanian Orthodox Church">Romanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Orthodox_Church" title="Bulgarian Orthodox Church">Bulgarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgian_Orthodox_Church" title="Georgian Orthodox Church">Georgian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Cyprus" title="Church of Cyprus">Cyprus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Greece" title="Church of Greece">Greek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albanian_Orthodox_Church" title="Albanian Orthodox Church">Albanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Czech_and_Slovak_Orthodox_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church">Czech and Slovakia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moldovan_Orthodox_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Moldovan Orthodox Church">Moldovan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metropolis_of_Bessarabia" title="Metropolis of Bessarabia">Bessarabian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Ohrid_Archbishopric" title="Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric">Ohrid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latvian_Orthodox_Church" title="Latvian Orthodox Church">Latvian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Church_in_America" title="Orthodox Church in America">OCA/American-Canadian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Church_of_Ukraine" title="Orthodox Church of Ukraine">Ukrainian</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Oriental_Orthodoxy" class="mw-redirect" title="Oriental Orthodoxy">Oriental Orth.</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coptic_Orthodox_Church" title="Coptic Orthodox Church">Coptic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_Orthodox_Tewahedo_Church" title="Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church">Ethiopian Tewahedo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Apostolic_Church" title="Armenian Apostolic Church">Armenian Apostolic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syriac_Orthodox_Church" title="Syriac Orthodox Church">Syriac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eritrean_Orthodox_Tewahedo_Church" title="Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church">Eritrean Tewahedo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malankara_Orthodox_Syrian_Church" title="Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church">Malankara</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Anabaptism" title="Anabaptism">Anabaptist</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mennonites" title="Mennonites">Mennonites</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mennonite_Church_USA" title="Mennonite Church USA">Mennonite Church USA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_Conference_of_Mennonite_Brethren_Churches" title="Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches">Canadian Mennonite Brethren Churches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mennonite_Church_Canada" title="Mennonite Church Canada">Mennonite Church Canada</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amish" title="Amish">Amish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hutterites" title="Hutterites">Hutterites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schwarzenau_Brethren" title="Schwarzenau Brethren">Schwarzenau Brethren</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Brethren" title="Church of the Brethren">Church of the Brethren</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglican</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anglican_Communion" title="Anglican Communion">Anglican Communion</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglican_Church_of_Australia" title="Anglican Church of Australia">Anglican Church of Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglican_Church_of_Canada" title="Anglican Church of Canada">Anglican Church of Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglican_Church_in_Aotearoa,_New_Zealand_and_Polynesia" title="Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia">Anglican Church in New Zealand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Nigeria" title="Church of Nigeria">Church of Nigeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Episcopal_Church" title="Scottish Episcopal Church">Scottish Episcopal Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Ireland" title="Church of Ireland">Church of Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Episcopal_Church_(United_States)" title="Episcopal Church (United States)">Episcopal Church (US)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_in_Wales" title="Church in Wales">Church in Wales</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continuing_Anglican_movement" title="Continuing Anglican movement">Continuing Anglican movement</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_African_Church" title="The African Church">The African Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglican_Church_in_North_America" title="Anglican Church in North America">Anglican Church in North America</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Baptists" title="Baptists">Baptist</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alliance_of_Baptists" title="Alliance of Baptists">Alliance of Baptists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Baptist_Association" title="American Baptist Association">American Baptist Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Baptist_Churches_USA" title="American Baptist Churches USA">American Baptist Churches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baptist_Bible_Fellowship_International" title="Baptist Bible Fellowship International">Baptist Bible Fellowship International</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baptist_Missionary_Association_of_America" title="Baptist Missionary Association of America">Baptist Missionary Association of America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Baptist_Association_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative Baptist Association of America">Conservative Baptist Association of America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Converge_(Baptist_organization)" class="mw-redirect" title="Converge (Baptist organization)">Converge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Association_of_Regular_Baptist_Churches" title="General Association of Regular Baptist Churches">General Association of Regular Baptist Churches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Association_of_Free_Will_Baptists" title="National Association of Free Will Baptists">National Association of Free Will Baptists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Primitive_Baptist_Convention_of_the_U.S.A." title="National Primitive Baptist Convention of the U.S.A.">National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_American_Baptist_Conference" title="North American Baptist Conference">North American Baptist Conference</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Baptist_Convention" title="Southern Baptist Convention">Southern Baptist Convention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_Baptist" title="Independent Baptist">Independent Baptist Churches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Baptist_Convention_of_America,_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.">National Baptist Convention of America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Baptist_Convention,_USA,_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.">National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Missionary_Baptist_Convention_of_America" title="National Missionary Baptist Convention of America">National Missionary Baptist Convention of America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Progressive_National_Baptist_Convention" title="Progressive National Baptist Convention">Progressive National Baptist Convention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Baptist_Ministries" title="Australian Baptist Ministries">Australian Baptist Ministries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_Baptist_Ministries" title="Canadian Baptist Ministries">Canadian Baptist Ministries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_National_Baptist_Convention" title="Canadian National Baptist Convention">Canadian National Baptist Convention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Fellowship_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Fellowship (Canada)">The Fellowship (Canada)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baptist_Union_of_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist Union of New Zealand">Baptist Union of New Zealand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Baptist_Convention" title="Nigerian Baptist Convention">Nigerian Baptist Convention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Association_of_Baptist_Churches_in_Ireland" title="Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland">Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baptist_Union_of_Great_Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist Union of Great Britain">Baptist Union of Great Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baptist_Union_of_Scotland" title="Baptist Union of Scotland">Baptist Union of Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baptist_Union_of_Wales" title="Baptist Union of Wales">Baptist Union of Wales</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Holiness_movement" title="Holiness movement">Holiness</a>/<br /><a href="/wiki/Pietism" title="Pietism">Pietist</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_God_(Anderson,_Indiana)" title="Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)">Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Covenant_Church" title="Evangelical Covenant Church">Evangelical Covenant Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Free_Church_of_America" title="Evangelical Free Church of America">Evangelical Free Church of America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Nazarene" title="Church of the Nazarene">Church of the Nazarene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Salvation_Army" title="The Salvation Army">The Salvation Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wesleyan_Church" title="Wesleyan Church">Wesleyan Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wesleyan_Holiness_Church" title="Wesleyan Holiness Church">Wesleyan Holiness Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wesleyan_Methodist_Church_of_Australia" title="Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia">Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Lutheranism" title="Lutheranism">Lutheran</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lutheran_World_Federation" title="Lutheran World Federation">World Federation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Batak_Christian_Protestant_Church" title="Batak Christian Protestant Church">Batak Christian Protestant Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lutheran_Church_of_Australia" title="Lutheran Church of Australia">Lutheran Church of Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_in_America" title="Evangelical Lutheran Church in America">ELCA, America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_in_Canada" title="Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada">ELCC, Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lutheran_Church_in_Great_Britain" title="Lutheran Church in Great Britain">Lutheran Church in Great Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lutheran_Church_of_Christ_in_Nigeria" title="Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria">Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Lutheran_Council" title="International Lutheran Council">International Lutheran Council</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lutheran_Church%E2%80%93Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutheran Church–Canada">Lutheran Church–Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lutheran_Church%E2%80%93Missouri_Synod" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod">Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confessional_Evangelical_Lutheran_Conference" title="Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference">Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wisconsin_Evangelical_Lutheran_Synod" title="Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod">Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Global_Confessional_and_Missional_Lutheran_Forum" title="Global Confessional and Missional Lutheran Forum">Global Confessional and Missional Lutheran Forum</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/North_American_Lutheran_Church" title="North American Lutheran Church">North American Lutheran Church</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Methodism" title="Methodism">Methodist</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/World_Methodist_Council" title="World Methodist Council">World Methodist Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/African_Methodist_Episcopal_Church" title="African Methodist Episcopal Church">African Methodist Episcopal Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/African_Methodist_Episcopal_Zion_Church" title="African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church">African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Methodist_Episcopal_Church" title="Christian Methodist Episcopal Church">Christian Methodist Episcopal Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Methodist_Church" title="United Methodist Church">United Methodist Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Methodist_Church_of_New_Zealand" title="Methodist Church of New Zealand">Methodist Church of New Zealand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Methodist_Episcopal_Church" title="British Methodist Episcopal Church">British Methodist Episcopal Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Church_of_Canada" title="United Church of Canada">United Church of Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Methodist_Church_of_Great_Britain" title="Methodist Church of Great Britain">Methodist Church of Great Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_Methodist_Church" title="Free Methodist Church">Free Methodist Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Methodist_Church_in_Ireland" title="Methodist Church in Ireland">Methodist Church in Ireland</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Pentecostalism" title="Pentecostalism">Pentecostal</a>/<br /><a href="/wiki/Charismatic_movement" title="Charismatic movement">Charismatic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Assemblies_of_God" title="Assemblies of God">Assemblies of God</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/China_Gospel_Fellowship" title="China Gospel Fellowship">China Gospel Fellowship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_God_(Cleveland,_Tennessee)" title="Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)">Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_God_in_Christ" title="Church of God in Christ">Church of God in Christ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_God_of_Prophecy" title="Church of God of Prophecy">Church of God of Prophecy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_on_the_Rock_International" class="mw-redirect" title="Church on the Rock International">Church on the Rock International</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fangcheng_Fellowship" title="Fangcheng Fellowship">Fangcheng Fellowship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Full_Gospel_Baptist_Church_Fellowship" title="Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship">Full Gospel Baptist Fellowship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hillsong_Church" title="Hillsong Church">Hillsong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Church_of_the_Foursquare_Gospel" class="mw-redirect" title="International Church of the Foursquare Gospel">Intl. Church of the Foursquare Gospel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Pentecostal_Holiness_Church" title="International Pentecostal Holiness Church">Intl. Pentecostal Holiness Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pentecostal_Church_of_God" title="Pentecostal Church of God">Pentecostal Church of God</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Pentecostal_Church_International" title="United Pentecostal Church International">United Pentecostal Church Intl.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C3_Church_Global" title="C3 Church Global">C3 Church Global</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CRC_Churches_International" title="CRC Churches International">CRC Churches Intl.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grace_Communion_International" title="Grace Communion International">Grace Communion Intl.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revival_Centres_International" title="Revival Centres International">Revival Centres Intl.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Church_of_Pentecost" title="Apostolic Church of Pentecost">Apostolic Church of Pentecost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pentecostal_Assemblies_of_Canada" title="Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada">Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redeemed_Christian_Church_of_God" title="Redeemed Christian Church of God">Redeemed Christian Church of God</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Apostolic_Church_Nigeria" title="The Apostolic Church Nigeria">Apostolic Church Nigeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Gospel_Faith_Mission_International" title="The Gospel Faith Mission International">Gospel Faith Mission</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Lord%27s_Chosen_Charismatic_Revival_Movement&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Lord's Chosen Charismatic Revival Movement (page does not exist)">The Lord's Chosen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Living_Faith_Church_Worldwide" title="Living Faith Church Worldwide">Living Faith Church Worldwide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Faith_Mission_of_South_Africa" title="Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa">Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Church_(1911_denomination)" class="mw-redirect" title="Apostolic Church (1911 denomination)">Apostolic Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elim_Pentecostal_Church" title="Elim Pentecostal Church">Elim Pentecostal Church</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Presbyterianism" title="Presbyterianism">Presbyterian</a><br />/<a href="/wiki/Reformed_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Reformed Church">Reformed</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Reformed_Church_in_North_America" title="Christian Reformed Church in North America">Christian Reformed Church in North America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Congregational_Christian_Conference" title="Conservative Congregational Christian Conference">Conservative Congregational Christian Conference</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland_Presbyterian_Church" title="Cumberland Presbyterian Church">Cumberland Presbyterian Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Presbyterian_Church_(United_States)" title="Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)">Evangelical Presbyterian Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_Presbyterian_Church_in_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Korean Presbyterian Church in America">Korean Presbyterian Church in America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Council_of_Community_Churches" title="International Council of Community Churches">International Council of Community Churches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Association_of_Congregational_Christian_Churches" title="National Association of Congregational Christian Churches">National Association of Congregational Christian Churches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_(USA)" title="Presbyterian Church (USA)">Presbyterian Church (USA)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_in_America" title="Presbyterian Church in America">Presbyterian Church in America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reformed_Church_in_America" title="Reformed Church in America">Reformed Church in America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Church_of_Christ" title="United Church of Christ">United Church of Christ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Reformed_Churches_of_Australia" title="Christian Reformed Churches of Australia">Christian Reformed Churches of Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fellowship_of_Congregational_Churches" title="Fellowship of Congregational Churches">Fellowship of Congregational Churches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_of_Australia" title="Presbyterian Church of Australia">Presbyterian Church of Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uniting_Church_in_Australia" title="Uniting Church in Australia">Uniting Church in Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_and_American_Reformed_Churches" title="Canadian and American Reformed Churches">Canadian and American Reformed Churches</a></li> <li><a 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title="Kingdom of God (Christianity)">Kingdom of God</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_liturgy" title="Christian liturgy">Liturgy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_liturgy" title="Catholic liturgy">Catholic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_liturgy" title="Eastern Catholic liturgy">Eastern Catholic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_worship" title="Eastern Orthodox worship">Eastern Orthodox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protestant_liturgy" title="Protestant liturgy">Protestant</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">Love</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Love_of_Christ" title="Love of Christ">of Christ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love_of_God" title="Love of God">of God</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariology" title="Mariology">Mariology</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Theotokos" title="Theotokos">Theotokos</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_mission" title="Christian mission">Mission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_monasticism" 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title="Repentance">Repentance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacrament" title="Sacrament">Sacraments</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baptism" title="Baptism">Baptism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eucharist" title="Eucharist">Eucharist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_views_on_marriage" title="Christian views on marriage">Marriage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confirmation" title="Confirmation">Confirmation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penance" title="Penance">Penance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anointing_of_the_sick" title="Anointing of the sick">Anointing of the Sick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_orders" title="Holy orders">Holy orders</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint" title="Saint">Saints</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salvation_in_Christianity" title="Salvation in Christianity">Salvation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satan" title="Satan">Satan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_views_on_sin" title="Christian views on sin">Sin</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eternal_sin" title="Eternal sin">Eternal sin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mortal_sin" title="Mortal sin">Mortal sin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sins_that_cry_to_Heaven_for_Vengeance" title="Sins that cry to Heaven for Vengeance">Sins that cry to Heaven for Vengeance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins" title="Seven deadly sins">Seven deadly sins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venial_sin" title="Venial sin">Venial sin</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacred_tradition" title="Sacred tradition">Tradition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_values" title="Christian values">Values</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vice" title="Vice">Vice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Works_of_mercy" title="Works of mercy">Works of mercy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_worship" title="Christian worship">Worship</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Christian_philosophy" title="Christian philosophy">Philosophy</a></th><td 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title="Option for the poor">Option for the poor</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_worldview" title="Christian worldview">Worldview</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other<br />features</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Christian_culture" title="Christian culture">Culture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christian_views_on_alcohol" title="Christian views on alcohol">Alcohol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_architecture" title="Church architecture">Architecture</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Architecture_of_cathedrals_and_great_churches" title="Architecture of cathedrals 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