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On one weekend in November 2015, around one in ten Protestant churchgoers in the U.S.—about 5 million people—attended service in a megachurch. [23] Some 3,000 individual Catholic Church parishes have 2,000 or more attendants for an average Sunday Mass, but they are not called megachurches as that is a Protestant term. [9]
The same source also lists more than 1,300 such Protestant and Evangelical churches in the United States with a weekly attendance of more than 2,000, meeting the definition of a megachurch. [ 4 ] As the term megachurch in common parlance refers to Protestant congregations; although there are some Catholic parishes which would meet the criteria ...
Watermark Community Church is a nondenominational evangelical megachurch based in Dallas, Texas. Watermark was founded in November 7, 1999 with an outward-focused ministry that sought to minister to "the unchurched, dechurched, dead-churched and unmoved." [1] Watermark averages about 9,000 weekly attendants.
The largest Catholic parish church in North America has 3,200 seats, sprawls nearly an acre and cost $21 million to build. "This is a Catholic megachurch ," said Bishop Joseph Brennan, who leads ...
Pastor John Gray poses for a portrait in the Love Story Church, formerly Relentless Church, sanctuary on Thursday, March 28, 2024. “We want to be a place where people feel loved when they come ...
DALLAS – Texas megachurch pastor Bishop T.D. Jakes is on the road to recovery, providing his congregation with a virtual update on Sunday through a livestream featured on his church, The Potter ...
Southland Christian Church is considered a megachurch. It is one of Kentucky's largest churches, averaging over 12,000 in attendance per weekend in 10 services - two in Nicholasville, two in Lexington, two at Danville, two at Georgetown and two at Richmond.
This list of the largest evangelical megachurches contains evangelical Christian megachurches by weekly attendance. Large churches from other denominations, like Catholicism, are not included as they are not deemed to belong to the megachurch phenomenon which by definition is part of Protestantism.