DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE WITH THOUSANDS OF CHRISTIAN CULTS, SECTS AND DENOMINATION

ANSWER : DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE WITH THOUSANDS OF CHRISTIAN CULTS, SECTS AND DENOMINATION

According to the World Christian Encyclopedia (year 2000 version), global Christianity had 33,820 denominations with 3,445,000 congregations/churches composed of 1,888 million affiliated Christians. 

Answer 

Here are only a few offshoots of Christianity: 

Religion # of members 

Catholic 1,050,000,000

Orthodox/Eastern Christian 240,000,000

African indigenous sects (AICs) 110,000,000

Pentecostal 105,000,000

Reformed/Presbyterian/Congregational/United 75,000,000

Anglican 73,000,000

Baptist 70,000,000

Methodist 70,000,000

Lutheran 64,000,000

Jehovah's Witnesses 14,800,000

Adventist 12,000,000

Latter Day Saints 12,500,000

Apostolic/New Apostolic 10,000,000

Stone-Campbell ("Restoration Movement") 5,400,000

New Thought (Unity, Christian Science, etc.) 1,500,000

Brethren (incl. Plymouth) 1,500,000

Mennonite 1,250,000

Friends (Quakers) 300,000 

Answer 

There are really too many to count because even for the main groups there are smaller offshoots but some of the major ones: 

Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Baptist, Charismatic, Episcopal, Mormon, Jehovah Witnesses, Protestants 

This is a complex question. There are several Groups of Christians with many sub groups, and denominations. 

The primary classes of Christians are: 

•Churches without sacramental Ordination 

•** Protestant 

◦*** Lutheran (Minor Exception) 

■Presbyterian 

■Methodist 

◦Anabaptist 

◦*** Baptists 

■Pentecostals 

■Brethren 

■Amish 

◦Non-Trinitarians 

◦*** Universalists 

■Unitarians 

■Quakers 

•Restorationists 

•** Church of Jesus christ of Latter Day Saints (The Mormons) 

◦Jehovahs Witnesses 

◦Charismatics 

◦Christadelphians 

•Episcopalian 

•** Anglicans, Episcopal churches, etc 

•Catholic 

•** "Roman" Catholic (Western Rite Catholicism) 

◦*** Sedevacantists 

■Those who follow Anti-popes 

■Old Catholics 

■Catholics who Follow the Pope 

◦Eastern Orthodox (under the Patriarch of constantinople) 

◦*** Greek Orthodox 

■Russian Orthodox 

■Serbian Orthodox 

■et cetera 

◦Coptic (Under pope 

•Gnostic or Esoteric Christianity 

The differences between these groups are vast, and the list of denominations that i have provided is by no means complete. There were at one time believed to be near 100,000 different denominations of Christianity, each of which fell mostly into one of these groups. 

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