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The following is a current list of the highest-ranking leaders in major Christian churches or denominations. The list is in descending order based on the number of congregants. The list is in descending order based on the number of congregants.
Christian Reformed Church in North America – 0.2 million [178] Evangelical Church in Kalimantan – 0.2 million [179] Javanese Christian Church – 0.2 million [180] Indonesian Christian Church Synod – 0.2 million [181] Church of Christ in the Sudan Among the Tiv – 0.2 million [182] Evangelical Church of Congo – 0.2 million [183]
With more than 1.1 billion baptized members, the Catholic Church is the largest Christian church and represents 50.1% [1] of all Christians as well as 16.7% of the world's population. [390] [391] [392] Catholics live all over the world through missions, diaspora, and conversions.
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 9 ] It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization .
The term Christian used as an adjective is descriptive of anything associated with Christianity or Christian churches, or in a proverbial sense "all that is noble, and good, and Christ-like." [15] According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, up from about 600 million in 1910. [4]
[b] The faith represents approximately one-third of the world's population and is the largest religion in the world, [126] with the three largest groups of Christians being the Catholic Church, Protestantism, and the Eastern Orthodox Church. [128] The largest Christian denomination is the Catholic Church, with an estimated 1.2 billion adherents ...
This tradition within Christianity comprises churches with historical connections to the Church of England or similar beliefs, worship and church structures. Most Anglicans today are part of the Anglican Communion. Anglicanism defies itself as 'both catholic and reformed'.
1999 Radical orthodoxy Christian theological movement begins, critiquing modern secularism and emphasizing the return to traditional doctrine; similar to the Paleo-orthodoxy Christian theological movement of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, which sees the consensual understanding of the faith among the Church Fathers as the basis of ...