Christian denominations alpha
Alphabetical list of the largest Christian denominations
There are thousands of recognised denominations and below are over 300 that have the largest memberships.
Membership numbers (shown in brackets) are those supplied by the only people who know - the denominations themselves. Each denomination has their own understanding of what qualifies somebody to be a "member". Nevertheless, they can be used as a rough guide when comparing one denomination with another.
World Council of Churches (WCC) members are identified by 
See also listing by group.
- African Church of the Holy Spirit (700,000)
Protestant - African - African Israel Church Nineveh (500,000)
Protestant - African - African Methodist Episcopal Church (2,500,000)
Protestant - Methodist - African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (1,500,000)
Protestant - Methodist - Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church (10,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Byzantine Rite - Albanian Orthodox Church (800,000)
Eastern Orthodox - American Baptist Association (300,000)
Protestant - Baptist - American Baptist Churches USA (1,400,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Amish (250,000)
Protestant - Anabaptism and Free - Ancient Church of the East (100,000)
Nestorian - Anglican Church in North America (100,000)
Anglican - Anglican Church of Australia (3,900,000)
Anglican - Anglican Church of Burundi (800,000)
Anglican - Anglican Church of Canada (2,000,000)
Anglican - Anglican Church of Kenya (5,000,000)
Anglican - Anglican Church of Southern Africa (2,300,000)
Anglican - Anglican Church of Tanzania (2,000,000)
Anglican - Apostolic Catholic Church (8,000,000)
Catholic - Other - Apostolic Church (6,000,000)
Protestant - Pentecostal - Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church (9,000,000)
Oriental Orthodox - Armenian Catholic Church (400,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Armenian Rite - Armenian Orthodox Church of Cilicia (1,500,000)
Oriental Orthodox - Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople (420,000)
Oriental Orthodox - Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem (340,000)
Oriental Orthodox - Assemblies of God (64,000,000)
Protestant - Pentecostal - Association of Baptist Churches in Rwanda (300,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Association of Vineyard Churches (15,000,000)
Protestant - Other evangelical - Assyrian Church of the East (500,000)
Nestorian - Baptist Bible Fellowship International (1,200,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Baptist Community in Central Africa (200,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Baptist Community of the Congo River (1,000,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Baptist Community of Western Congo (200,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Baptist Convention in Tanzania (500,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Baptist Convention of Kenya (800,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Baptist Convention of Malawi (200,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Baptist General Association of Virginia (500,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Baptist General Convention of Texas (2,300,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Baptist Missionary Association of America (200,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Baptist Union of Uganda (1,500,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Batak Christian Protestant Church (4,200,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (2,400,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Belarusian Greek Catholic Church (100,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Byzantine Rite - Born Again Movement (20,000,000)
Protestant - Other evangelical - Brazilian Baptist Convention (1,300,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (5,000,000)
Catholic - Other - British Orthodox Church (10,000)
Oriental Orthodox - Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church (10,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Byzantine Rite - Bulgarian Orthodox Church (10,000,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Calvary Chapel (25,000,000)
Protestant - Other evangelical - Canadian Baptist Ministries (200,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Central Sulawesi Christian Church (200,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Chaldean Catholic Church (400,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Chaldean Rite - Chinese Orthodox Church (30,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (5,000,000)
Catholic - Other - Christadelphians (60,000)
Restorationist - Christian and Missionary Alliance (4,000,000)
Protestant - Other evangelical - Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) (700,000)
Protestant - Restorationist - Christian Church of Sumba (300,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Christian Congregation of Brazil (2,500,000)
Protestant - Pentecostal - Christian Evangelical Church in Minahasa (700,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Christian Evangelical Church of Sangihe Talaud (200,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (900,000)
Protestant - Methodist - Christian Protestant Church in Indonesia (3,600,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Christian Reformed Church in North America (300,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Christian Reformed Church of Nigeria (160,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Church of Central Africa, Presbyterian (1,300,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - Church of Christ in Congo - Anglican Community of Congo (500,000)
Anglican - Church of Christ in Congo - Baptist Community of Congo (400,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Church of Christ in Congo - Presbyterian Community of Congo (2,500,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - Church of Christ in the Sudan Among the Tiv (200,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Church of Christ Light of the Holy Spirit (1,400,000)
Protestant - African - Church of Christ, Scientist (400,000)
Restorationist - Church of Denmark (4,500,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Church of England (25,000,000)
Anglican - Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) (1,200,000)
Protestant - Other evangelical - Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) (1,000,000)
Protestant - Pentecostal - Church of God in Christ (6,500,000)
Protestant - Pentecostal - Church of God of Prophecy (1,000,000)
Protestant - Pentecostal - Church of Greece (11,000,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Church of Iceland (200,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Church of Ireland (400,000)
Anglican - Church of Jesus Christ in Madagascar (3,500,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (14,800,000)
Restorationist - Latter Day Saint movement - Church of Lippe (200,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Church of Nigeria (18,000,000)
Anglican - Church of North India (1,500,000)
Anglican - Church of Norway (4,000,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Church of Pakistan (500,000)
Anglican - Church of Scotland (1,100,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - Church of South India (4,000,000)
Anglican - Church of Sweden (6,700,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Church of the Lord (Aladura) (3,600,000)
Protestant - African - Church of the Nazarene (2,000,000)
Protestant - Methodist - Church of the Province of Central Africa (900,000)
Anglican - Church of the Province of Melanesia (200,000)
Anglican - Church of the Province of Rwanda (1,000,000)
Anglican - Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean (500,000)
Anglican - Church of the Province of the West Indies (800,000)
Anglican - Church of the Province of West Africa (300,000)
Anglican - Church of Uganda (8,100,000)
Anglican - Churches of Christ (5,000,000)
Protestant - Restorationist - Community of Christ (200,000)
Restorationist - Latter Day Saint movement - Conservative Baptist Association of America (200,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Convention of Baptist Churches of the Northern Circars (200,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches (300,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (500,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Coptic Catholic Church (200,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Alexandrian Rite - Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria (15,500,000)
Oriental Orthodox - Council of African Instituted Churches (3,000,000)
Protestant - African - Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India (600,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Croatian Greek Catholic Church (10,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Byzantine Rite - Cypriot Orthodox Church (700,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church (70,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Episcopal Church in the United States (2,400,000)
Anglican - Episcopal Church of Sudan (4,500,000)
Anglican - Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (2,500,000)
Oriental Orthodox - Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church (200,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Estonian Orthodox Church (300,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim & Seraphim (5,000,000)
Protestant - African - Ethiopian Catholic Church (200,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Alexandrian Rite - Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (5,300,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (48,000,000)
Oriental Orthodox - Evangelical Christian Church in Halmahera (300,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Evangelical Christian Church in Tanah Papua (600,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Evangelical Church in Germany (24,500,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Evangelical Church of Cameroon (2,000,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Evangelical Church of Congo (200,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Evangelical Church of Gabon (200,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria (300,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia (400,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil (700,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Evangelical Congregational Church in Angola (900,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Congregationalist - Evangelical Free Church of America (400,000)
Protestant - Methodist - Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (4,500,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary (200,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (700,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (600,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (5,600,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Namibia (400,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe (200,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil (200,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cameroon (200,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (4,400,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia (200,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea (1,200,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana (600,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - Evangelical Reformed Church in Bavaria & Northwestern Germany (200,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Finnish Orthodox Church (80,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Free Methodist Church (900,000)
Protestant - Methodist - French Coptic Orthodox Church (10,000)
Oriental Orthodox - Friends of Man (70,000)
Restorationist - Garo Baptist Convention (200,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Georgian Byzantine Catholic Church (10,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Byzantine Rite - Georgian Orthodox Church (5,000,000)
Eastern Orthodox - God is Love Pentecostal Church (800,000)
Protestant - Pentecostal - Greek Byzantine Catholic Church (10,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Byzantine Rite - Greek Old Calendarists (860,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Greek Orthodox Church of Constantinople (3,500,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria & All Africa (1,500,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch & All the East (2,500,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem (140,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Hungarian Greek Catholic Church (300,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Byzantine Rite - Hutterites (200,000)
Protestant - Anabaptism and Free - Iglesia ni Cristo (1,800,000)
Restorationist - Indian (Malankara) Orthodox Church (2,000,000)
Oriental Orthodox - Indonesia Christian Church (200,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Indonesian Protestant Church (400,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (8,000,000)
Protestant - Pentecostal - International Circle of Faith (11,000,000)
Protestant - Pentecostal - Italo-Albanian Catholic Church (100,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Byzantine Rite - Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church (1,200,000)
Oriental Orthodox - Japanese Orthodox Church (20,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Javanese Christian Churches (200,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Jehovah's Witnesses (7,500,000)
Restorationist - Kalimantan Evangelical Church (200,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Karo Batak Protestant Church (300,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Kimbanguist Church (5,500,000)
Protestant - African - Korea Baptist Convention (800,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Korean Methodist Church (1,500,000)
Protestant - Methodist - Latin Church (1,149,000,000)
Catholic - Latin - Latvian Orthodox Church (20,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Lesotho Evangelical Church (300,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (2,500,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria (1,900,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Lutheran Council of Great Britain (200,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Macedonian Greek Catholic Church (10,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Byzantine Rite - Macedonian Orthodox Church (2,000,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Malabar Independent Syrian Church (60,000)
Oriental Orthodox - Malagasy Lutheran Church (3,000,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church (1,100,000)
Oriental Orthodox - Manipur Baptist Convention (200,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Maronite Catholic Church (3,100,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Antiochene Rite - Melkite Greek Catholic Church (1,300,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Byzantine Rite - Mennonites (1,500,000)
Protestant - Anabaptism and Free - Methodist Church Ghana (800,000)
Protestant - Methodist - Methodist Church in Brazil (200,000)
Protestant - Methodist - Methodist Church in India (600,000)
Protestant - Methodist - Methodist Church in Kenya (500,000)
Protestant - Methodist - Methodist Church Nigeria (2,000,000)
Protestant - Methodist - Methodist Church of Great Britain (300,000)
Protestant - Methodist - Methodist Church of Southern Africa (1,700,000)
Protestant - Methodist - Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia (620,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Moldovan Orthodox Church (3,200,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Montenegrin Orthodox Church (50,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Moravian Church (700,000)
Protestant - Anabaptism and Free - Myanmar Baptist Convention (700,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Nagaland Baptist Church Council (500,000)
Protestant - Baptist - National Association of Free Will Baptists (200,000)
Protestant - Baptist - National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. (3,100,000)
Protestant - Baptist - National Baptist Convention of Brazil (400,000)
Protestant - Baptist - National Baptist Convention of Mexico (200,000)
Protestant - Baptist - National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. (8,500,000)
Protestant - Baptist - National Missionary Baptist Convention of America (1,000,000)
Protestant - Baptist - National Primitive Baptist Convention of the USA (1,000,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (1,100,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - New Apostolic Church (11,000,000)
Restorationist - Nigerian Baptist Convention (2,500,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Old Believers (5,500,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Old Calendar Bulgarian Orthodox Church (450,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Old Calendar Romanian Orthodox Church (500,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Old Catholic Church (600,000)
Catholic - Other - Orissa Evangelical Baptist Crusade (500,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Orthodox Church in America (1,200,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Orthodox Church in Italy (120,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Orthodox Church of Greece (Holy Synod in Resistance) (750,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric (340,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Patriarchal Exarchate in Western Europe (150,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (1,500,000)
Protestant - Oneness Pentecostalism - Pentecostal Mission (10,000,000)
Protestant - Pentecostal - Philippine Independent Church (6,000,000)
Catholic - Other - Plymouth Brethren (1,000,000)
Protestant - Anabaptism and Free - Polish Orthodox Church (1,000,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Presbyterian Church (USA) (3,000,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - Presbyterian Church in Ireland (300,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - Presbyterian Church in Rwanda (300,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (300,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (300,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - Presbyterian Church of Africa (3,400,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - Presbyterian Church of Brazil (700,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - Presbyterian Church in Cameroon (1,800,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - Presbyterian Church of East Africa (4,000,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - Presbyterian Church of Korea (2,400,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - Presbyterian Church of Nigeria (500,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - Presbyterian Church of Pakistan (400,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - Presbyterian Church of Sudan (1,000,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - Progressive National Baptist Convention (2,500,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Protestant Church in the Moluccas (600,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Protestant Church in Netherlands (2,500,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Protestant Church in Western Indonesia (600,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Protestant Evangelical Church in Timor (2,000,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Reformed Church in America (300,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Reformed Church in Hungary (600,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Reformed Church in Romania (600,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Reformed Church in Zambia (300,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Reformed Church of France (400,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) (400,000)
Protestant - Quaker - Romanian Catholic Church (700,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Byzantine Rite - Romanian Orthodox Church (23,000,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Russian Catholic Church (10,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Byzantine Rite - Russian Orthodox Church (125,000,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (1,250,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Russian True Orthodox Church (850,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Ruthenian Catholic Church (500,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Byzantine Rite - Salvation Army (1,400,000)
Protestant - Methodist - Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches (800,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Schwarzenau Brethren (1,500,000)
Protestant - Anabaptism and Free - Serbian Orthodox Church (11,500,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Seventh-day Adventist Church (17,000,000)
Protestant - Seventh-day Adventist - Simalungun Protestant Christian Church (200,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Slovak Greek Catholic Church (200,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Byzantine Rite - Society of St. Pius X (500,000)
Catholic - Other - Southern Baptist Convention (16,300,000)
Protestant - Baptist - Swiss Reformed Church (2,400,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Syriac Catholic Church (100,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Antiochene Rite - Syriac Orthodox Church (1,050,000)
Oriental Orthodox - Syro-Malabar Catholic Church (3,800,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Chaldean Rite - Syro-Malankara Catholic Church (400,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Antiochene Rite - Toraja Church (400,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Traditional Anglican Communion (500,000)
Anglican - True Jesus Church (2,500,000)
Protestant - Other evangelical - Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (3,800,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (4,300,000)
Catholic - Eastern - Byzantine Rite - Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) (5,500,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (7,200,000)
Eastern Orthodox - Unitarian Universalist Association (200,000)
Unitarian Universalist - United Church in Papua New Guinea (600,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - United Church of Canada (2,800,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - United Church of Christ (1,200,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Congregationalist - United Church of Christ in the Philippines (500,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - United Church of Zambia (3,000,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (500,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Congregationalist - United Evangelical Lutheran Church in India (4,500,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - United Methodist Church (12,000,000)
Protestant - Methodist - United Methodist Church of Ivory Coast (1,000,000)
Protestant - Methodist - United Pentecostal Church International (4,000,000)
Protestant - Pentecostal - Uniting Church in Australia (300,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (500,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Presbyterian - Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (500,000)
Protestant - Reformed - Continental - Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (2,000,000)
Protestant - Pentecostal - Waldensian Church (50,000)
Protestant - Waldensians - Wesleyan Church (400,000)
Protestant - Methodist - Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (400,000)
Protestant - Lutheran - Zion Christian Church (15,000,000)
Protestant - African