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1815 Peter the Aleut, orthodox Christian, tortured and martyred in Catholic San Francisco, California; 1816 Bishop Richard Allen, a former slave, founds the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first African-American denomination; 1817 Claus Harms publishes 95 theses against rationalism and the Prussian Union of churches
Note: Unitarian Universalism developed out of Christian traditions but no longer identifies as a Christian denomination. Church of Christ, 4th Watch – 0.6 million [citation needed] Church of Christ, Scientist – 0.1 million [321] World Mission Society Church of God – 0.1 million [322] Friends of Man – 0.07 million [citation needed]
Christianity can be taxonomically divided into six main groups: the Church of the East, Oriental Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and Restorationism. [8] [9] Within these six main traditions are various Christian denominations (for example, the Coptic Orthodox Church is an Oriental
This is a timeline showing the dates when countries or polities made Christianity the official state religion, generally accompanying the baptism of the governing monarch. Adoptions of Christianity to AD 1450
Timeline of Christian missions – chronicles the global expansion of Christianity through a listing of the most important missionary outreach events. List of Christian martyrs – Since its earliest days, hundreds of thousands of Christians have been killed for their faith. As such, this list can never be fully complete, and includes only the ...
The history of Christianity begins with the ministry of Jesus, a Jewish teacher and healer, who was crucified and died c. AD 30–33 in Jerusalem in the Roman province of Judea. Afterwards, his followers, a set of apocalyptic Jews, proclaimed him risen from the dead.
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 any ...
In 2012, the NCC is a joint venture of 35 Christian denominations in the United States with 100,000 local congregations and 40,000,000 adherents. [50] Its member communions include Mainline Protestant , Orthodox , African-American, Evangelical and historic Peace churches.