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The world's largest Baptist denomination, and the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus: Lutheran: 1959 Bishop Dr. Wakseyoum Idossa: Addis Ababa, Chartered city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Ethiopia: 12,000,000 [10] The world's largest Lutheran denomination. Church of Uganda: Anglican: 1897
[7] [22] Much of the growth has occurred after World War II, when decolonization of Africa and abolition of various restrictions against Protestants in Latin American countries occurred. [8] According to one source, Protestants constituted respectively 2.5% of South Americans, 2% of Africans and 0.5% of Asians in 1900. [ 8 ]
The largest Methodist denomination, the United Methodist Church, had about 25 percent [192] of their churches disaffiliate between 2019 and 2023, some of whom joined the Global Methodist Church, thus figures for the two denominations are an ongoing process.
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).
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The largest denomination is the Catholic Church with more than 1.3 billion members. [24] The smallest of these groups may have only a few dozen adherents or an unspecified number of participants in independent churches as described below. As such, specific numbers and a certain size may not define a group as a denomination.
Jurisdictions where a Protestant denomination has been established as a state religion include several Nordic countries; Denmark (including Greenland), [80] the Faroe Islands (its church being independent since 2007), [81] Iceland [82] and Norway [83] [84] [85] have established Evangelical Lutheran churches.
Other estimates suggest that 48.5% of the U.S. population (or 157 million people) is Protestant. [2] Simultaneously, this corresponds to around 20% of the world's total Protestant population. The U.S. contains the largest Protestant population of any country in the world. Baptists comprise about one-third of American Protestants.