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Groups of denominations, often sharing broadly similar beliefs, practices, and historical ties—can be known as "branches of Christianity" or "denominational families" (e.g. Eastern or Western Christianity and their sub-branches).
- Baptist. Alliance of Baptists. American Baptist. American Baptist Association. Baptist (Missionary) Baptist Bible Fellowship International. Baptist General Conference.
- Methodist. African Methodist Episcopal. African Methodist Episcopal Zion. Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Free Methodist Church of North America.
- Presbyterian. Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Presbyterian Church in America. Presbyterian Church in Canada.
- Orthodox. Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese. Coptic Orthodox. Greek Orthodox. Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Toronto (Canada) Orthodox Church in America.
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- The Catholic Church. The Catholic Church, known as the Roman Catholic Church, is one of the largest Christian denominations in the world. The Catholic Church is based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and traces its origins back to the Apostles, such as Saint Peter, whom Catholics consider the first Bishop of Rome.
- The Southern Baptist Convention. The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a Protestant Christian denomination and one of the largest Baptist groups in the United States.
- The United Methodist Church. The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a worldwide liberal Protestant Christian church. The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church joined together to form the United Methodist Church in 1968.
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly referred to as the LDS Church or the Mormon Church, was founded in the United States in the early 1800s.
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- What Catholics Believe
Despite some heavy persecution, there were periods of relative peace and safety for Christians in the early Church, and its influence spread out quickly from the original apostles’ ministry. As Christianity grew, so did the need for some form of oversight. Even during the first century Churches were taking on a formal structure. There were specific...
The Catholic Church has an extremely formal and sophisticated hierarchical style of Governance. The hierarchy is known as the ‘Holy Orders’ and is one of the ‘seven sacraments’ of the Catholic Church. At the head of the Catholic Church are the bishops, with the Bishop of Rome being the supreme head of the Catholic Church. You would know him as the ...
First and foremost Catholics, like allChristians, affirm the Trinity. The Catholic Church also affirms the doctrine of the full humanity, and full deity of Jesus Christ. Apostolic succession is the claim that the Pope is the supreme head of Christ’s Church, and that the Pope represents the unbroken continuation of Church leadership since Saint Pete...
A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity, identified by traits such as a name, organization and doctrine. Individual bodies, however, may use alternative terms to describe themselves, such as church, convention, communion, assembly, house, union, network, or sometimes fellowship. Divisions between one denomination and another are primarily defined by authority ...
Nicene Creed is "the authoritative expression of the fundamental beliefs of the Orthodox Church." (GOAA) "Jesus is the complete revelation of God to us, and as such, Jesus, although fully human with us, is also fully God—fully divine." (ECUSA) Christ "is the One Mediator, fully God, fully man, in whose Person is effected the reconciliation ...
t. e. A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity that comprises all church congregations of the same kind, identifiable by traits such as a name, particular history, organization, leadership, theological doctrine, worship style and, sometimes, a founder. It is a secular and neutral term, generally used to denote ...
