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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]
This is a list of intentional communities. An intentional community is a planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision and often follow an alternative lifestyle.
Note: Unitarian Universalism developed out of Christian traditions but no longer identifies as a Christian denomination. Church of Christ, Scientist – 0.4 million [citation needed] Church of Christ, 4th Watch – 0.6 million [citation needed] World Mission Society Church of God – 0.1 million [321] Friends of Man – 0.07 million [citation ...
Methodists were among the first Christians to accept women's ordination since the Montanists. Some 60-80 million Christians are Methodists and members of the World Methodist Council. [86] [97] [98] The holiness movement emerged within Methodism in the 19th-century. [A] As of 2015, churches of the movement had an estimated 12 million adherents ...
The vast majority of Eastern Orthodox Christians in North America are in the U.S. and have roots in countries with current or historically large Orthodox communities, including those of Russian, Greek, Ukrainian, Albanian, Macedonian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Georgian, Lebanese, Syrian, Jordanian, Palestinian, Israeli, and Egyptian ...
The financial hardship that beset the North American diocese as the result of the Russian Revolution resulted in a degree of administrative chaos, with the result that other national Orthodox communities in North America turned to the churches in their respective homelands for pastoral care and governance.
1994 Bicentennial of Orthodox Christianity in North America (1794–1994); Ligonier Meeting in Western Pennsylvania at the Antiochian Village held by the majority of Orthodox hierarchs in North America votes to do away with the notion of Orthodox Christians in America being a "diaspora" and pledges to work together in missions; glorification of ...
The Bruderhof (/ ˈ b r uː d ər ˌ h ɔː f /; 'place of brothers') is a communal Anabaptist Christian movement that was founded in Germany in 1920 by Eberhard Arnold.The movement has communities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Paraguay, and Australia.