What are they and why?
2006-09-30 14:35:47 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Major Traditional Branches of Christianity
(mid-1995; source: Encyclopedia Britannica) Branch Number of Adherents
Catholic 968,000,000
Protestant 395,867,000
Other Christians 275,583,000
Orthodox 217,948,000
Anglicans 70,530,000
Major Denominational Families of Christianity
(This table does not include all Christians. These numbers are estimates, and are here primarily to assist in ranking branches by size, not to provide a definitive count of membership.)
Branch Number of Adherents
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
Major Branches of Islam Branch Number of Adherents
Sunni 940,000,000
Shiite 120,000,000
Ahmadiyya 10,000,000 *
Druze 450,000
2006-09-30 14:38:01 · answer #1 · answered by missourim43 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Almost as many as the exact number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin.
2006-09-30 14:48:04 · answer #2 · answered by raxivar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as you have pride in the world, there is always going to be someone who thinks they can do it better then you and the guy in the place of authority.
2006-09-30 14:44:00 · answer #3 · answered by cadac1946@sbcglobal.net 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who could even begin to count them? There are so many, and they are all over the world!
2006-09-30 14:44:10 · answer #4 · answered by Brigid O' Somebody 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There should be only 1 because there is 1 church, but man-kind has a way of messing things up
2006-09-30 14:37:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too damn many.
2006-09-30 14:37:41 · answer #6 · answered by Tommy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no clue...sorry
2006-09-30 14:37:30 · answer #7 · answered by GB 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋