Is the Catholic religion the world's largest Christian denomination?

Question

I am guessing it is and Protestant is second and Baptist or Anglician is third.

Please,no dumb comments.

Answer 1

Yes, Catholicism is considered the largest Christian denomination.

One reason for this is that Protestantism isn't usually considered a single denomination. Both Baptist and Anglican are considered types of Protestants, as are Lutherans, and many others.

Answer 2

*Is Catholic*

Yes Catholicism is the world's largest Church. Then Comes Orthodox.

Catholicism is not a denomination. Orthodox is not a denomination as well. Only Protestants are classified as denominations.

The various Churches that are united with the Pope are called the Catholic Church. There are 1.2+ Billion.

The Orthodox are actually several national Churches that have a common faith but are not structurally united. The Russian Orthodox Church and the Greek Orthodox Church are not united as the Melkite Catholic Church and Ukrainian Catholic Church are united in the Catholic Church.

There are several early independent Churches such as the Coptic (not Coptic Catholic) which cannot be classified as Catholic or Orthodox. They are very small, but many are larger than many of the Protestant denominations.

Protestant denominations can be classified by family, that is who they descended from. There is the Anglican Family (Anglican, Episcopalian, Methodist), (Ana)Baptist Family, Lutheran Family, Calvinistic Family, etc.

Here is a good chart (not complete by any sense of the imagination but good enough)
http://www.scborromeo.org/images/fig1.jpg

The exact ranking of who is larger than the other is dependant on how you catagorize the varying groups. However Catholics are always the largest by at least an order of magnatude.

Here are some exellent charts.
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

http://www.adherents.com/adh_rb.html

BUT NOTE: This site has some classifications that many Christians would not agree with. For example it classifies Mormons as Christians, something that the major Churches and Protestant Denominations deny.

Answer 3

Yes, the Catholic Church is the largest. The only correction I’ll make is that Protestantism is like a separate division of Christianity. In it are all the other denominations like Baptist, Anglican, Lutheran, etc.

Answer 4

Yeah, about 60% of the world's Christians is Catholic. Also interesting, within twenty years or so only 1 out of 5 Christians will be white and from the Americas or Europe. The new stronghold of Christianity will become Africa and Asia.

Answer 5

Yes. Roman Catholicism is, statistically speaking, the largest denomination within Christianity.

From Wikipedia:

"The Catholic Church is by far the largest Christian church and the largest organized body of any world religion. According to the Statistical Yearbook of the Church, the Catholic Church's worldwide recorded membership at the end of 2005 was 1,114,966,000, approximately one-sixth of the world's population."

Answer 6

Yes.

According to Adherents.com, the largest Christian denominations are:

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

With love in Christ.

Answer 7

Catholic, yes.
Protestant, second.

Answer 8

No.It's not Christian.

Answer 9

Yes, it is, by far.