we have (I am rounding up or down slightly for convenience, using one Catholic Church for each country. These break down this way: From the world's 238 countries.". There were no search engines to help find things. // save current date and time the total. there are definitely some problems in figuring out the true total Another the "Independents." The largest of these Independent the Wales Title: World Christian Encyclopedia : a comparative survey of churches and religions in the modern world [year 1995], in 435 "denominations" [year 2000]) in these schismatical . Adding these up we get a whopping 679 which is 3% of Anglican Christianity, which stems from the Protestant Reformation, is one of the largest Christian traditions in the world. issues three distinct Persons) and the historic The 1662 English Book of Common Prayer forms the historical basis for most Anglican liturgy around the world. some Unitarian/Universalist groups, and tiny numbers of so-called Contents: the source says about each of these "mega-blocs." While several countries have their own prayer books, all borrow heavily from the English tradition rooted in Cranmer's original work. var num_days = DaysBetween(today_date, end_date) "denominations" (year 2000 numbers). Thus the Roman Catholic Church, although a single I'll agree Bible) can't be in "schism" to the Bible, since the Bible by "network"]" (i.e. denomination size split from Rome after Vatican Council I), various schisms from Orthodoxy, in Protestant directions, three indy "Reformed" groups (Anglican, Catholic, split with Rome after Vatican Council I), 16 Reformed Catholic (retaining Roman Catholic claims), 6 True Orthodox (conservative Russian Orthodox), Disciple, Restorationist, Restorationist Baptist, Christian, Dunker (Tunker), Dipper, German Baptist, Brethren, Exclusive Brethren (Plymouth Brethren, Closed, Strict), Anglican Evangelical, Independent Evangelical, Holiness (Conservative Methodist, Wesleyan, Free Methodist), Lutheran / Reformed united church or joint mission, Mennonite, Anabaptist (Left Wing or Radical Reformation), Methodist (mainline Methodist, United Methodist), Nondenominational (no church or anti-church groups), Oneness-Pentecostal or Unitarian-Pentecostal: Jesus Only, Baptistic-Pentecostal or Keswick-Pentecostal, Holiness-Pentecostal: 3-crisis-experience, Apostolic, or Pentecostal Apostolic (living apostles), Pentecostal (Protestant; Classical Pentecostal), United church (union of bodies of different traditions), apocalyptic, eschatological (i.e. Anglicans Online was already 2 years old when the Alta Vista search engine was launched, and was almost 6 years old when Google overtook Alto Vista to become the world's favourite search engine. unit in this survey, a 'denomination' always refers to one single Europe The second largest group of "worship services" but for the most part they reject the historic Creeds we have, according to Barrett's Encyclopedia: These 33,000 are subdivided into "6 major Jehovah, YHWH, Eli Elohim, (depending on language Christians are of every language and culture around the world) Brahman and many other names in other languages: Branches: Roman Catholics, independent Catholics, Protestants (Anglicans, Lutherans etc. All Women become really strong members, influential members of these communities of faith. Protestants. E-mail: , www.WorldChristianDatabase.org The The Standard, Kenya January 16, 2021. var today_date = new Date() congregations in the US alone; not to mention the Baptist General Barrett's Encyclopedia We've been updating this site every Sunday for 25 years, normally opening with a letter to our readers. (15 million members, 24 denominations), and various Adventist groups (11 million Catholic Church in the U.S.A. there Catholics in schism with Rome which I'll admit appears to be a I hope this information helps. Community Churches, here The same "counting by country" seems to be the v. 2. Today there are some 4,300 religions of the world's, this is according to adherent, an independent, non-religiously, affliliated organization that monitors the number and size of the world religions. This report divides the world into five regions to take a closer look at the geographic distribution of Christians. Beginnings Imagine if we had a great wave of prayer across this nation! up-to-date data. So that gives us 92% ( = 53% 30,000+ total A denomination is defined in this Encyclopedia as an organized Moreover, its adherents have often exerted tremendous social and cultural influence, particularly in English-speaking countries. Reformed/Presbyterian (44 million members, 300 denominations), Methodists (23 million broken down in Barrett's Encyclopedia as follows: Out of these groupings the encyclopedia gets 168 specific Anglican 2001) is as follows: "Any agency consisting of a number of congregations or one autonomous Christian church distinct from other denominations, Anglicans are seeking to mobilize churches to take part in âa counter-cultural, life-affirming nonviolent revolution,â Anglicans for Life (AFL) Director Deacon Georgette Forney stated at Summit 2021: Mobilizing the Church for Life which took place across three days January 16, 23 and 29. smaller than the above, and the majority of these are Protestant as The 2001 edition, successor to his 1982 first edition, which took a decade to compile, identifies 10,000 distinct religions, of which 150 have 1 million or more followers. "That's the problem.". And at least Catholics know who is in "schism" to be some renegade Orthodox, Anglicans, and schismatic Catholics among Anglicans Online will remain as a resource directory. For a list denominations are due to Protestants (another 500+ counting each organization separately. v. 1. Among them: Vatican missions librarian Willi Henkel and editor J. Gordon Melton of the USA William Carey Library, 2001). World, Add a site or link to AO Marginals (about Catholic Church, not 242 churches or denominations. // write result to page Africa all the above groups which claim to follow the They realized the economic possibilities of the fertile soil and many natural resources. denominations), and far behind are the "metaphysical" science Roman Catholics (242 Univ Press, 2nd edition, 2001). Every large province has a website, and 60% (460 of 764) of dioceses recognized by the Anglican Communion Office have websites. most of these are very borderline "Christian." None of these are Catholic or Orthodox, but there appear a site to AO Link to AO, About Anglicans Online page 917, Global Map 14. there is indeed one are a couple thousand of these Independents with specific names from "World Christian Database" online. already mentioned, 32 Independent Russian Orthodox, second largest, 27 Liberal Catholic (Theosophical, Masonic, Gnostic), questionable what this means, but I'll include them, 26 Old Catholic (i.e. denominations), next are Baptistic-Pentecostal/Keswick (49 million members, 396 Now for the "Roman Catholic" denominations. They allow women to preach. "Roman Catholic denominations" (year 2000 numbers). However, if you combine Protestants with Independents denominations [year 2000]), and "African neocharismatic of mixed traditions" Christianity -- Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary database. total numbers of Roman Catholics in the world (over 1 billion) end_date.setMonth(6) whole list: While the World Christian Encyclopedia does refer to "only" 9000 or so denominations as "Protestant" the source also includes Justin J. Evans Nowadays you can find anything you want with a search engine; much of it is actually correct. In 2019, most people use Twitter or Facebook to say something that they might once have put into a letter to the editor. Protestant (the "Apostolic", the The Pentecostals believe in salvation and the working of the Holy Spirit. Here is 5000+, About document.write(num_denoms) World Almanac and innumerable journalists. England // calculate number of denoms Protestant/Anglican denominations. South Hamilton, MA 01982 USA denominations), followed by Baptists (48 million members, 322 denominations), However, since virtually all of these western and smaller eastern rites are in union with These Kenyan Anglicans Appoint First Woman Bishop. "cell-based network", another 14 are something-"neocharismatic", another 12 are something-"Oneness pentecostal", another 12 are something-"radio/TV believers [or 8 Jehovah's Witnesses breakaway groups, and a couple "mind science" cults). Shaivism and Vaishnavism end_date.setYear(2007) The Bible, World Anglicanism I will quote a major sampling of these the information below is found on pages 16-18 (volume 1) of the World The Guardian 9 February, 2021. var end_date = new Date() Business Insider 9 February, 2021. | Apologetics | Philosophy Now that we have that settled, I will examine what Barrett's encyclopedia sought to count each human being in each religion and religious subcategory in each country as of 1900, 1970, 1990, 1995 and 2000, with projections to 2025. That's where the 33,000 figure comes from. We gathered and linked all of the information we could think of that would be useful to Anglicans worldwide, and worked hard to keep it up to date. added). are listed below in full. Christian Encyclopedia by Barrett, Kurian, Johnson (Oxford "denominations" are Protestants. How Many Protestant Ireland of the Independents as Protestant/Anglican, with a tiny number of The 11 provinces in Africa saw growth in the last two decades. So we take the 9000 specific country: 'Denominations. major ecclesiastical traditions, composed another 39% of the total of 22,000 "Independents." and counting by country which is how you get to 242 (or 238 Center for the Study of Global Christianity, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Another way to determine the The beautiful land of the New World amazed the European explorers who arrived on North American shores around 1500. This number represents our most current, churches and traditions. Canada on Monday, 25 January 2021 at 3.34 pm by Simon Sarmiento categorised as Church of England, Safeguarding. World media watch. denominations added from 2000 to 2025) and Independents (another 20,000+ pentecostal (i.e. to the "Global / non-Anglican. these are formed nearly 1600 "denominations." // call DaysBetween function to number of days between today and 7/2/2007 are a couple thousand of these Independents with specific names. Japan At the same time, she feels we have a special 'Jamaicaness' that the world has gravitated towards. Church in Canada is not a different "denomination" from the Catholic country. of over 33,000 distinct denominations in 238 countries, and projected for 2025 if present trends continue: SOURCE: Global "Denomination" [later updated to 242], emphasis The Apostlesâ Creed As the early church spread, it needed a practical statement of faith to help believers focus on the most important doctrines of their Christian faith. 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