List of Christian denominations

Orthodox Catholic Churches

• Eastern Orthodox Churches
  • Orthodox Church of Constantinople: the Ecumenical Patriarch
  • Antiochian Orthodox Church
  • Orthodox Church of Alexandria
  • Orthodox Church of Jerusalem
  • Albanian Orthodox Church
  • Orthodox Church in America
  • Bulgarian Orthodox Church
  • Chinese Orthodox Church
  • Cypriot Orthodox Church
  • Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church
  • Estonian Orthodox Church
  • Orthodox Church of Finland
  • Georgian Orthodox Church
  • Church of Greece
  • Japanese Orthodox Church
  • Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai
  • Polish Orthodox Church
  • Romanian Orthodox Church
  • Russian Orthodox Church
  • Serb Orthodox Church
  • Ukrainian Orthodox Church

• Oriental Orthodox Communion
  • Armenian Apostolic Church
  • Coptic Orthodox Church
  • Ethiopian Orthodox Church
  • Eritrean Orthodox Church
  • Indian Orthodox Church ("Malankara Syrian")
  • Syrian Orthodox Church ("Jacobite Syrian")

• Schismatic Orthodox Churches
  • Belorussian Orthodox Church
  • Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece
  • Macedonian Orthodox Church
  • Old Believers
  • Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
  • Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

Celtic Christianity

• Celtic Catholic Church (under The Papacy from 1172 to the 21st century)

Churches in full communion with the Roman See

• Roman Catholic Church
• Eastern Catholic Churches
  • Belarussian Church (Byzantine rite)
  • Bulgarian Church (Byzantine rite)
  • Croatian Church (Byzantine rite)
  • Georgian Church (Byzantine rite)
  • Greek Church (Byzantine rite)
  • Hungarian Church (Byzantine rite)
  • Latin or Roman Church (Roman rite)
  • Melkite (Byzantine rite)
  • Romanian Church (Byzantine rite)
  • Russian Church (Byzantine rite)
  • Ruthenian Church (Byzantine rite)
  • Serbian Church (Byzantine rite)
  • Slovak Church (Byzantine rite)
• Uniate Church (Byzantine Church)
• Neouniate Church
• (other rites)
  • Armenian Catholic Church
  • Chaldean Catholic Church
  • Coptic Catholic Church
  • Ethiopian Catholic Church
  • Maronites
  • Melkites
  • Syrian Catholic Church
  • Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
  • Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
• (historically related, but no longer in full communion)
  • American Catholic Church
  • Catholic Apostolic Church
  • Catholic Life Church
  • Christ Catholic Church
  • Liberal Catholic Church
  • North American Old Catholic Church
  • Old Catholic Church
  • Palmarian Catholic Church
  • Philippine Independent Church
  • Mariavite Church
  • Polish Catholic Church

Nestorian Churches

• Assyrian Church of the East

Protestantism and descendant churches

• Early Protestants (before Luther)
  • Hussites
  • Lollards
  • Waldensians

• Lutheran
  • American Association of Lutheran Churches
  • Apostolic Lutheran Church of America
  • Association of Free Lutheran Congregations
  • Church of Denmark
  • Church of Estonia
  • Church of Finland
  • Church of Iceland
  • Church of Norway
  • Church of Sweden
  • Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America
  • Church of the Lutheran Confession
  • Evangelical Covenant Church of America ("Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant")
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia
  • Evangelical Lutheran Synod
  • Laestadian Lutheran Church
  • Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
  • Lutheran Church of Australia
  • Lutheran Church of New Zealand
  • Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
  • Lutheran Church - Canada
  • Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
  • See also:

• Reformed and Presbyterian Churches
  • Reformed churches
    • Canadian and American Reformed Churches
    • Christian Reformed Church in North America
    • Church of Lippe
    • Dutch Reformed Church
    • Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches
    • Free Reformed Churches of North America
    • Heritage Reformed Congregations
    • Hungarian Reformed Church in America
    • Orthodox Christian Reformed Church
    • Protestant Reformed Churches in America
    • Reformed Christian Church in Croatia
    • Reformed Church in America
    • Reformed Church in Bavaria and Northwestern Germany
    • Reformed Church in Hungary
    • Reformed Church in the United States
    • Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine
    • Reformed Church of Japan
    • Remonstrant Brotherhood
    • United Reformed Church
    • United Reformed Churches in North America
  • Presbyterian
    • Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
    • Bible Presbyterian Church
    • Church of Scotland
    • Cumberland Presbyterian Church
    • Evangelical Presbyterian Church
    • Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England and Wales
    • Free Church of Scotland
    • Free Church of Scotland Continuing
    • Free Presbyterian Church
    • Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland
    • Korean Presbyterian Church in America
    • Orthodox Presbyterian Church
    • Presbyterian Church in America
    • Presbyterian Church in Ireland
    • Presbyterian Church in Korea
    • Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea
    • Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand
    • Presbyterian Church of Australia
    • Presbyterian Church of Canada
    • Presbyterian Church of Korea
    • Presbyterian Church of Wales
    • Presbyterian Church USA
    • Reformed Presbyterian Church - Covenanted
    • Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland
    • Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America
    • United Free Church of Scotland
    • Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa
  • see also

• Anabaptist
  • Amish
    • Beachy Amish
    • Nebraska Amish
    • Old Order Amish
    • Swartzendruber Amish
  • Hutterites
    • Bruderhof Communities
  • Mennonites
    • Alliance of Mennonite Evangelical Congregations
    • Anabaptist Association of Australia and New Zealand
    • Brethren in Christ
    • Chortitzer Mennonite Conference
    • Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (aka Holdeman Mennonites)
    • Conservative Mennonite Conference
    • Evangelical Mennonite Church
    • Evangelical Mennonite Conference
    • Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference
    • Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches (formerly Evangelical Mennonite Brethren)
    • Mennonite Brethren Churches
      • Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches
      • Japan Mennonite Brethren Conference
      • US Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches
    • Mennonite Church Canada
    • Mennonite Church in the Netherlands
    • Mennonite Church USA
    • Mennonite World Conference
    • Swiss Mennonite Conference

• Various Brethren denominations
  • Church of the United Brethren in Christ
  • Plymouth Brethren
  • River Brethren
    • Brethren in Christ Church
    • Old Order River Brethren
    • United Zion Church
  • Schwarzenau Brethren
    • Church of the Brethren
    • Conservative Grace Brethren Churches, International
    • Dunkard Brethren
    • Ephrata Cloister
    • Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches
    • Old German Baptist Brethren
    • Old Order German Baptist Brethren
    • The Brethren Church (Ashland Brethren)
  • Social Brethren

• Baptist (All Baptist associations are congregationalist affiliations for the purpose of cooperation, in which each local church is governmentally independent)
  • Alliance of Baptists
  • American Baptist Association
  • American Baptist Churches
  • Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland
  • Association of Grace Baptist Churches
  • Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America
  • Association of Regular Baptist Churches
  • Baptist Bible Fellowship International
  • Baptist Conference of the Philippines
  • Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec
  • Baptist Convention of Western Cuba
  • Baptist General Conference
  • Baptist General Conference of Canada
  • Baptist General Convention of Texas
  • Baptist Missionary Association of America
  • Baptist Union of Australia
  • Baptist Union of Great Britain
  • Baptist Union of New Zealand
  • Baptist Union of Scotland
  • Baptist Union of Western Canada
  • Baptist World Alliance
  • Bible Baptist
  • Canadian Baptist Ministries
  • Canadian Convention of Southern Baptists
  • Central Baptist Association
  • Central Canada Baptist Conference
  • Christian Unity Baptist Association
  • Colored Primitive Baptists
  • Conservative Baptist Association
  • Conservative Baptist Association of America
  • Conservative Baptists
  • Continental Baptist Churches
  • Convención Nacional Bautista de Mexico
  • Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches
  • Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
  • European Baptist Convention
  • European Baptist Federation
  • Evangelical Baptist Mission of South Haiti
  • Evangelical Free Baptist Church
  • Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada
  • Free Will Baptist Church
  • Fundamental Baptist Fellowship of America
  • General Association of Baptists
  • General Association of General Baptists
  • General Association of Regular Baptist Churches
  • General Conference of the Evangelical Baptist Church, Inc.
  • General Six-Principle Baptists
  • Global Independent Baptist Fellowship
  • Grace Baptist Assembly
  • Independent Baptists
  • Independent Baptist Church of America
  • Independent Baptist Fellowship International
  • Independent Baptist Fellowship of North America
  • Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptist Association
  • Landmark Baptist Church
  • Liberty Baptist Fellowship
  • Myanmar Baptist Convention
  • National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.
  • National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
  • National Baptist Evangelical Life and Soul Saving Assembly of the U.S.A.
  • National Missionary Baptist Convention of America
  • National Primitive Baptist Convention of the U.S.A.
  • New England Evangelical Baptist Fellowship
  • New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches
  • North American Baptist Conference
  • Northern Baptist Convention
  • Norwegian Baptist Union
  • Old Baptist Union
  • Old Regular Baptists
  • Old Time Missionary Baptists
  • Primitive Baptists
  • Progressive Baptists
  • Progressive National Baptist Convention
  • Reformed Baptists
  • Regular Baptist Churches, General Association of
  • Regular Baptists
  • Separate Baptists
  • Separate Baptists in Christ
  • Seventh Day Baptists
  • Southeast Conservative Baptists
  • Southern Baptist Convention
  • Southern Baptists of Texas
  • Sovereign Grace Baptists
  • Strict Baptists
  • Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists
  • Union D'Eglises Baptistes Francaises Au Canada
  • United American Free Will Baptist Church
  • United American Free Will Baptist Conference
  • United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces
  • United Baptists
  • United Free Will Baptist
  • Unregistered Baptist Fellowship
  • World Baptist Alliance
  • World Baptist Fellowship
• See also List of Baptist sub-denominations

• Pentecostals
  • Abundant Life Worship Centers
  • Apostolic Assemblies of Christ
  • Apostolic Assembly of the Faith in Christ Jesus
  • Apostolic Church of Pentecost of Canada
  • Apostolic Faith Church
  • Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God
  • Assemblies of God
  • Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ
  • Calvary Holiness Association
  • Christ Gospel Churches International
  • Christian Church of North America
  • Christian Congregation of Brazil
  • Church of God (Charleston, Tennessee)
  • Church of God (Chattanooga)
  • Church of God (Cleveland)
  • Church of God (Huntsville, Alabama)
  • Church of God by Faith
  • Church of God, House of Prayer
  • Church of God in Christ
  • Church of God Mountain Assembly
  • Church of God of Prophecy
  • Church of God with Signs Following
  • Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith
  • Church of the Little Children of Jesus Christ
  • Congregational Holiness Church
  • Elim Fellowship
  • Elim Pentecostal Church
  • Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas
  • God is Love Pentecostal Church
  • Holiness Baptist Association
  • Independent Assemblies of God, International
  • International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
  • International Pentecostal Church of Christ
  • International Pentecostal Holiness Church
  • Open Bible Standard Churches (association of autonomous churches)
  • Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
  • Pentecostal Assemblies of the World
  • Pentecostal Church of God
  • Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church
  • Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches of North America
  • Pentecostal Churches of the Apostolic Faith
  • Pentecostal World Conference
  • Redeemed Christian Church of God
  • The Church of God (Jerusalem Acres)
  • The Church of God for All Nations
  • The Fellowship (FGFCMI)
  • United Holy Church of America
  • United Pentecostal Church International

• African Independent Churches
  • Church of the Lord
  • Kimbanguist Church
  • Zion Christian Church

• Messianic Judaism
  • Chosen People Ministries
  • Jews for Jesus
  • Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations

• Misc. movement churches
  • Calvary Chapel
  • Church of Christ, Instrumental (aka Kelleyites)
  • Evangelical Free Church of America
  • Fellowship of Fundamental Bible Churches
  • Schwenkfelder Church
  • Vineyard Movement

• Other Pietists & Holiness
  • Apostolic Christian Church
  • Bible Fellowship Church
  • Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A.
  • Church of God (Anderson)
  • Church of God (Guthrie, Oklahoma)
  • Church of God (Holiness)
  • Churches of God General Conference (Winebrenner)
  • Evangelical Covenant Church
  • Missionary Church
  • Moravians
  • United Christian Church
  • Unity of the Brethren

• Methodists
  • African Methodist Episcopal Church
  • African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
  • Bible Methodist Church
  • British Methodist Episcopal Church
  • Chinese Methodist Church
  • Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
  • Congregational Methodist Church
  • Church of the Nazarene
  • Evangelical Church
  • Evangelical Methodist Church
  • Free Methodist Church
  • Fellowship of Independent Methodist Churches
  • Fundamental Methodist Conference, Inc.
  • Independent Methodist Church
  • Korean Methodist Church
  • Methodist Church, Hong Kong
  • Methodist Church in Ireland
  • Methodist Church in Singapore
  • Methodist Church of Great Britain
  • Methodist Church of New Zealand
  • Methodist Church of South Africa
  • Methodist Church of Sri Lanka
  • Primitive Methodist Church
  • Salvation Army
  • United Methodist Church
  • Wesleyan Church
  • Wesleyan Reform Union
  • See also:

Anglicans

• Episcopal Church
  • Anglican Communion
    • Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
    • Anglican Church of Australia
    • Anglican Church of Canada
    • Anglican Church of Kenya
    • Anglican Church of Korea
    • Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea
    • Church in Wales
    • Church of England
    • Church of Ireland
    • Church of Nigeria
    • Church of Uganda
    • Church of the Province of Burundi
    • Church of the Province of Central Africa
    • Church of the Province of Melanesia
    • Church of the Province of Myanmar
    • Church of the Province of Rwanda
    • Church of the Province of South East Asia
    • Church of the Province of Southern Africa
    • Church of the Province of Tanzania
    • Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean
    • Church of the Province of the West Indies
    • Church of the Province of West Africa
    • Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East
    • Episcopal Church
    • Episcopal Church of Cuba
    • Episcopal Church of the Sudan
    • Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui
    • Iglesia Anglicana de la Region Central America
    • Iglesia Anglicana de México
    • Iglesia Anglicana del Cono Sud de las Americas
    • Igreja Episcopal do Brasil
    • Lusitanian Church of Portugal
    • Nippon Sei Ko Kai (Japan)
    • Philippine Episcopal Church
    • Scottish Episcopal Church
    • Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church
  • Schismatic (or "continuing") Anglican Churches
    • African Orthodox Church
    • African Orthodox Church of the West
    • African Orthodox Episcopal Church
    • American Episcopal Church
    • Anglican Mission in America
    • Anglican Province of Christ the King
    • Charismatic Episcopal Church
    • Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches
    • Free Church of England
    • Free Protestant Episcopal Church
    • Reformed Episcopal Church
    • Southern Episcopal Church

"Quakers"

* Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

* United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing (Shakers)

United / Uniting churches

*China Christian Council

*Church of Bangladesh

*Church of Pakistan

*Church of North India

*Church of South India

*Evangelical Church in Germany

*United Church of Canada

*United Church of Christ

*Uniting Church in Australia

Restorationism

• Restoration Movement (Stone-Campbell)
  • Disciples of Christ
  • Christian Church
  • Churches of Christ
  • International Churches of Christ (Boston Movement)
  • See also:

• Millerite
  • Sunday Adventists
    • Advent Christian Church
    • Church of God General Conference (Abrahamic Faith)
    • Church of the Blessed Hope (aka Church of God of the Abrahamic Faith)
    • Primitive Advent Christian Church
  • Seventh Day Adventists
    • Branch Davidians
    • Branch Seventh Day Adventists
    • Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church
    • Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist Association
    • General Association of Davidian Seventh-Day Adventists
    • People's Christian Church
    • Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement
    • Seventh-day Adventist General Conference (Seventh-day Adventist Church)
    • The Registry
  • Church of God Adventists
    • Assembly of God in Christ Jesus
    • Associated Churches, Inc.
    • Associates for Scriptural Knowledge
    • Biblical Church of God
    • Body of Christ Church of God
    • Church of God (Anadarko)
    • Church of God (Jesus Christ the Head) (UNICO)
    • Church of God (O'Brien)
    • Church of God (Philadelphia Era)
    • Church of God (Sabbatarian)
    • Church of God (Seventh Day, Salem, West Virginia)
    • Church of God Evangelical Association
    • Church of God's Truth
    • Church of the Great God
    • Congregation of God, Seventh Day
    • Congregation of God
    • Congregation of Yah
    • Foundation for Biblical Research
    • Foundation of Life Fellowship
    • General Conference of the Church of God (Seventh-Day)
    • General Council of the Churches of God
    • Global Church of God
    • Harmony of Life Fellowship
    • International Church of God (ICG)
    • Philadelphia Church of God
    • Restoration Church of God
    • Seventh-Day Church of God
    • The Eternal Church of God
    • The Pure Truth
    • Triumph Prophetic Ministries (Church of God)
    • Twentieth Century Church of God (Pennsylvania)
    • Twentieth Century Church of God
    • United Biblical Church of God
    • United Church of God
    • United Seventh-Day Brethren
    • Universal Church of God
    • World Insight International
    • Worldwide Church of God
  • Bible Student Groups
    • Back to the Bible Way
    • Christian Believers Conference
    • Christian Bible Students Association
    • Christian Millenial Fellowship
    • Christian Prophets of Jehovah
    • Dawn Bible Students Association
    • Epiphany Bible Students Association
    • Independent Bible Students
    • Jehovah's Witnesses
    • Laodicean Home Missionary Movement
    • Layman's Home Missionary Movement
    • Lord Our Righteousness (Life Support)
    • Pastoral Bible Institute
    • Philanthropic Assembly
  • Sacred Name Groups
    • Assemblies of YHWHHOSHUA
    • Assemblies of Yah
    • Assemblies of Yahvah
    • Assemblies of Yahweh (Easton Rapids, Michigan)
    • Assemblies of Yahweh
    • Assemblies of the Called Out Ones of Yah
    • Bible Study Association
    • Church of God (Jerusalem)
    • House of Yahweh (Abilene, Texas)
    • House of Yahweh (Odessa, Texas)
    • Missionary Dispensary Bible Research
    • New Life Fellowship
    • Scripture Research Association
    • Workers Together with Elohim
    • Yahweh's Assembly of Messiah
  • British Israelism
    • Anglo-Saxon Federation of America
    • British-Israel-World Federation (Canada), Inc.
    • Calvary Fellowship, Inc.
    • Christian Conservative Churches of America
    • Christian Identity Church
    • Christian Research
    • Church of Israel
    • Church of Jesus Christ Christian (Aryan Nations)
    • Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord
    • House of Prayer for All People
    • Kingdom Identity Ministries
    • LaPorte Church of Christ
    • Ministry of Christ Church
    • National Association of Kingdom Evangelicals
    • New Christian Crusade Church
    • Prophetic Herald Ministry
    • Remnant of Israel
    • Tabernacle of the Phineas Priesthood
  • Southcottites
    • Israelite House of David
    • Israelite House of David as Reorganized by Mary Purnell
    • Yahweh's New Covenant Assembly
  • Other Adventists
    • Christadelphians
    • Christian Nations - Eagle Warriors
    • Church of God (Reinersten)
    • Kingdom of God on Earth Within Man
    • Remnant Church
    • Restored Israel of Yahweh
    • Shiloh True Light Church of Christ
    • Star of Truth Foundation
    • True Church

• Latter Day Saint movement (Mormonism)
  • Aaronic Order
  • Church of Christ (Bickertonite)
  • Church of Christ (Cutlerite)
  • Church of Christ (Temple Lot)
  • Church of Christ with the Elijah Message
  • Church of Jesus Christ in Zion
  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints*
  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
  • Community of Christ**
  • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
  • New Covenant Church of God
  • Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
  • Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
  • Restored Church of Jesus Christ
  • Sons Aumen Israel
  • True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days

* The largest of these churches, headquarted in Salt Lake City, Utah, sometimes called the LDS Church; commonly, but incorrectly called the Mormon Church

** formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or RLDS Church

Gnosticism

• Bogomils
• Borborites
• Carpocratians
• Cathars
• Manichaeism

Various Nontrinitarian

• Arians
• Church of Christ, Scientist **
• Doukhobors
• Iglesia ni Cristo
• Magi Network *
• Molokan
• Unification Church
• Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship *

* Independent Affiliate of the Unitarian Universalist Association

** Alternatively categorized as one of the New Thought churches

New Thought churches

• Divine Science
• Religious Science
• Unity (Association of Unity Churches)

Referenced By