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Mainline Protestant denominations, such as the Episcopal Church (76%), [30] the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (64%), [30] and the United Church of Christ (46%), [31] [32] have the highest number of graduate and post-graduate degrees per capita of any other Christian denomination in the United States, [33] as well as the most high-income earners ...
Nashville, Tennessee, United States United States 13,200,000 [22] 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]
[253] [254] [255] Some Protestant Eastern Churches are in communion with similar Western Protestant Churches. [253] [256] However, Protestant Eastern Christianity within itself, does not constitute a single communion. This is due to the diverse polities, practices, liturgies and orientations of the denominations which fall under this category.
All Protestant denominations accounted for 48.5% of the population, making Protestantism the most common form of Christianity in the country and the majority religion in general in the United States, while the Catholic Church by itself, at 22.7% of the population, is the largest individual denomination. [11]
With 4,000 circuit riders by 1844, the Methodist Episcopal Church rapidly became the largest Protestant denomination in the country. St. George's United Methodist Church, located at the corner of 4th and New Streets, in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, is the oldest Methodist church in continuous use in the United States, beginning in ...
The largest mainline churches are sometimes referred to as the "Seven Sisters of American Protestantism," [17] a term apparently coined by William Hutchison. [18] The "Seven Sisters" are: United Methodist Church (UMC) is the largest mainline Protestant denomination among the "Seven Sisters" with 5.4 million members in the United States in 2022 ...
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), alternatively the Great Commission Baptists (GCB), is a Christian denomination based in the United States.It is the world's largest Baptist organization, the largest Protestant, and the second-largest Christian body in the United States.
The supporters of the Awakening and its evangelical thrust—Presbyterians, Baptists and Methodists—became the largest American Protestant denominations by the first decades of the 19th century. By the 1770s, the Baptists were growing rapidly both in the north (where they founded Brown University ), and in the South.