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Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity and the Catholic Church is the largest among churches. About 50% of all Christians are Catholics. About 50% of all Christians are Catholics. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to the annual directory of the Catholic Church or Annuario Pontificio of 2024, there were 1.390 billion baptized Catholics in 2022.
New Message from God: 1949– Li Hongzhi: Falun Gong: born 1951 or 1952 Ryuho Okawa: Happy Science: 1956–2023 Vissarion: Church of the Last Testament: 1961– Chris Korda: Church of Euthanasia: 1962– Tamara Siuda: Kemetic Orthodoxy: 1969– Olumba Olumba Obu: Brotherhood of the Cross and Star: 1918–2003 Isak Gerson: Missionary Church of ...
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, claims continuity (based upon apostolic succession) with the early Church as part of the state church of Rome. The Eastern Orthodox Church had about 230 million members as of 2019 [update] , making it the second largest single denomination behind the Catholic Church.
Catholic Church in Australia: 23.25 Australia: Catholicism: Extrapolated figure from calculating assets and investments in the state of Victoria. [7] Seventh-day Adventist Church: 15.6 United States: Adventism: As of 1998. [8] Church of England: 13.84 United Kingdom: Anglican: Endowment funds. [9] Church of Sweden: 11.41 Sweden: Lutheran: FY2012.
The largest Christian denomination is the Catholic Church, with 1.3 billion baptized members. [9] The second largest Christian branch is either Protestantism (if it is considered a single group), or the Eastern Orthodox Church (if Protestants are considered to be divided into multiple denominations).
The Leadership Network contains a directory of all Christian megachurches of the world (excluding Canada and USA). [5] This global list has over 270 megachurches. The Hartford Institute has compiled directories in Canada and the USA. The US list has more than 1,668 megachurches [6] [7] and the Canadian list 22. [8]
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a Holiness-Pentecostal Christian denomination, [1] [2] with a predominantly African-American membership. The denomination reports having more than 12,000 churches and over 6.5 million members in the United States. [3] The National Council of Churches ranks it as the fifth largest Christian denomination in ...
The pope is the patriarch of the Latin Church, the largest of the Catholic Church's 24 autonomous churches. He is also head of the college of bishops which governs the universal church. The Papal primacy doctrine of Catholics states that this primacy extends in perpetuity to the Pope and throughout the Catholic Church.