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How many Christian denominations are there?

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There are about 40,000 different Christian denominations. It's not even something that can be counted and kept track of. However, they can be roughly split into five major groups:

The Catholic Church
The Eastern Churches (Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Church of the East)
"Mainline" Protestant and Anglican churches
Evangelical (non-Pentecostal)
Pentecostal churches

These later two categories include a number of "non-denominational" or independent congregations. The first wave of "non-denominational" churches are in fact the third wave of the pentecostal movement. Other independent congregations tend to be evangelical, and while may not belong to a denomination per se, often do belong to various parachurch organizations or adhere to a common set of standards and beliefs with other similar evangelical churches. Some megachurches, by engaging in 'church planting' set themselves up as a sui iuris denomination while maintaining the "non-denominational" title.

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Here are some examples:

Aaronic Order
African Methodist
Amish
Ancient Apostolic
Anglican
Anglo-Israelism
Antiochian
Apostolic
Armenian
Baptist Convention
Beachy Amish
Belarusian Greek Catholic
Black Primitive Baptist
Brazilian Catholic
Brethren
British Methodist
Bulgarian Greek Catholic
Byzantine (Constantinopolitan)
Calvinist
Celtic Catholic
Chaldean
Chinese Methodist
Christian Methodist
Congregationalist
Conservative Baptist
Coptic Catholic
Croatian Greek Catholic
Dunker
Eastern Orthodox
Episcopal
Exclusive Brethren
Free Catholic
Georgian Byzantine Catholic
Greek Byzantine Catholic
Greek Orthodox
Hungarian Greek
Indian Brethren
Italo-Albanian Catholic
Kerala Brethren
Latin Catholic
Latter Day
Liberal Catholic
Lutheran
Lutheran Orthodox
Macedonian Greek Catholic
Maronite
Melkite Greek Catholic
Mennonite
Methodist
Mexican National Catholic
Moravian
National Baptist
Nebraska Amish
Nestorians
Old Order Amish
Open Brethren
Oriental Orthodox
Orthodox Catholic
Palmarian Catholic
Polish National Catholic
Presbyterian
Primitive Methodist
Quaker (Friends)
Remnant
River Brethren
Roman Catholic
Romanian
Russian Byzantine Catholic
Russian Orthodox
Ruthenian Catholic
Salvationist
Seventh-day Adventist
Slovak Greek Catholic
Social Brethren
Southern Baptist
Southern Conservative
Spiritus Christi
Swartzendruber Amish
Syriac
Syro-Malabar
Syro-Malankara
Taborites
True Catholic
Ukrainian Greek Catholic
Unitarian
Utaquists
Waldensians
Wycliffites

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