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- In the US, there are over 200 Christian denominations.
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May 30, 2022 · With an estimated 228.1 million Christians in the United States (including non-actives), that’s an average of 760 members per congregation. If this ratio is projected to the whole world, that gives us a much more down to earth figure of 3.1 million church buildings.
The majority of Christian Americans are Protestant Christians (140 million; 42%), though there are also significant numbers of American Roman Catholics (70 million; 21%) and other Christian denominations such as Latter Day Saints, Eastern Orthodox Christians and Oriental Orthodox Christians, and Jehovah's Witnesses (about 13 million in total; 4%).
Nov 16, 2022 · Using the same method in 2020, the US Religious Census team found 44,319 nondenominational congregations, with an estimated 21 million adherents. That makes nondenominational Christians the first...
- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) In 1965, the CC(DoC) had 1,918,471 members. In 2012, the membership was 625,252, a decline of 67 percent.
- Reformed Church in America. In 1967, the RCA had 384,751 members. In 2014, the membership was 145,466, a decline of 62 percent.
- United Church of Christ (Congregationalist) In 1965, the UCC had 2,070,413 members. In 2012, there were 998,906 members, a decline of 52 percent.
- Episcopal Church. In 1966, the TEC had 3,647,297 members. By 2013, the membership was 1,866,758, a decline of 49 percent. (Those numbers should be even lower, though, since those figures by the TEC include breakaway churches trying to leave the denomination.)
Aug 3, 2023 · Largest Christian Denominations in America: The Top 100 Christianity is an important part of the American story in its various denominational expressions. Some denominations came to America from Europe, while others started on American soil.
Jan 6, 2020 · Church historians, sociologists, and statisticians are going county by county, denomination by denomination, group of believers by group of believers, to compile the most complete record of...
May 27, 2024 · Roman Catholicism reports having 51 million baptized members in America, while Protestantism, with no central ecclesiastical authority like Catholicism, has a combined total of 141 million members from all its denominations. The Eastern Orthodox Church reports 6 million members in America. History and Origins of Denominations In the US.
