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The majority of Christian Americans are Protestant Christians (140 million; 44%), though there are also significant numbers of American Roman Catholics (70 million; 22%) and other Christian denominations such as Latter Day Saints, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Oriental Orthodox Christians, and Jehovah's Witnesses (about 13 million in total; 4%). [2]
The various denominations of Christianity fall into several large families, shaped both by culture and history. Christianity arose in the first century AD after Rome had conquered much of the western parts of the fragmented Hellenistic empire created by Alexander the Great. The linguistic and cultural divisions of the first century AD Roman ...
Modern movements such as Christian fundamentalism, Radical Pietism, Evangelicalism, the Holiness movement and Charismatic Christianity sometimes cross denominational lines, or in some cases create new denominations out of two or more continuing groups (as is the case for many united and uniting churches, for example; e.g. the United Church of ...
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 ...
Christianity was introduced during the period of European colonization. The United States has the world's largest Christian population. [68] [69] According to membership statistics from current reports and official web sites, the five largest Christian denominations are: The Catholic Church in the United States, 71,000,000 members [70]
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 ...
Many of the British North American colonies that eventually formed the United States of America were settled in the 17th century by men and women, who, in the face of European religious persecution, refused to compromise passionately held religious convictions (largely stemming from the Protestant Reformation which began c. 1517) and fled Europe.
According to Christianity Global: A Guide to the World's Largest Religion from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, in 2020, in the World, there were: 644,260,000 Pentecostal and Charismatcs, corresponding to 8.3% of the global population; 97,399,000 Anglicans (not including United Churches),corresponding to 1.2% of the global population;