How many different types of Christianity are there?

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According to the World Christian Encyclopedia (year 2000 version), global Christianity had 33,820 denominations with 3,445,000 congregations/churches composed of 1,888 million affiliated Christians.

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Here are only a few offshoots of Christianity:

Religion # of members

Catholic 1,050,000,000 Orthodox/Eastern Christian 240,000,000 African indigenous sects (AICs) 110,000,000 Pentecostal 105,000,000 Reformed/Presbyterian/Congregational/United 75,000,000 Anglican 73,000,000 Baptist 70,000,000 Methodist 70,000,000 Lutheran 64,000,000 Jehovah's Witnesses 14,800,000 Adventist 12,000,000 Latter Day Saints 12,500,000 Apostolic/New Apostolic 10,000,000 Stone-Campbell ("Restoration Movement") 5,400,000 New Thought (Unity, Christian Science, etc.) 1,500,000 Brethren (incl. Plymouth) 1,500,000 Mennonite 1,250,000 Friends (Quakers) 300,000

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There are really too many to count because even for the main groups there are smaller offshoots but some of the major ones:

Catholic Orthodox Lutheran Baptist Charismatic Episcopal Mormon Jehovah Witnesses Protestants


This is a complex question. There are several Groups of Christians with many sub groups, and denominations.

The primary classes of Christians are:

  • Churches without sacramental Ordination
  • ** Protestant
    • *** Lutheran (Minor Exception)
      • Presbyterian
      • Methodist
    • Anabaptist
    • *** Baptists
      • Pentecostals
      • Brethren
      • Amish
    • Non-Trinitarians
    • *** Universalists
      • Unitarians
      • Quakers
  • Restorationists
  • ** Church of Jesus christ of Latter Day Saints (The Mormons)
    • Jehovahs Witnesses
    • Charismatics
    • Christadelphians
  • Episcopalian
  • ** Anglicans, Episcopal churches, etc
  • Catholic
  • ** "Roman" Catholic (Western Rite Catholicism)
    • *** Sedevacantists
      • Those who follow Anti-popes
      • Old Catholics
      • Catholics who Follow the Pope
    • Eastern Orthodox (under the Patriarch of constantinople)
    • *** Greek Orthodox
      • Russian Orthodox
      • Serbian Orthodox
      • et cetera
    • Coptic (Under pope
  • Gnostic or Esoteric Christianity

The differences between these groups are vast, and the list of denominations that i have provided is by no means complete. There were at one time believed to be near 100,000 different denominations of Christianity, each of which fell mostly into one of these groups.


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One.

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Christianity is one religion.Catholicism, Protestant, Methodist etc. are just branches of christianity.

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