List of Christian denominations by number of members
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
World Christianity by tradition in 2025 as per World Christian Database[1]
Catholic (48.1%)
Protestant (23.8%)
Independent (15.5%)
Eastern/Oriental Orthodox (11.0%)
Other (1.60%)
WCD classifies Nondenominational Pentecostals as Independents, distinct from Protestants[2]
World Christianity by tradition in 2011 as per Pew Research Center[3]
Catholic (50.1%)
Protestant (36.7%)
Eastern Orthodox (9.40%)
Oriental Orthodox (2.50%)
Other (1.30%)
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This is a list of Christian denominations by number of members. It is inevitably partial and generally based on claims by the denominations themselves. The numbers should therefore be considered approximate and the article is an ongoing work-in-progress.
The list includes the Catholic Church (including Eastern Catholic Churches), Protestant denominations with at least 0.2 million members, the Eastern Orthodox Church (and its offshoots), Oriental Orthodox Churches (and their offshoots), Nontrinitarian, Restorationism, independent Catholic denominations, Nestorianism and all the other Christian branches and denominations with distinct theologies or polities.
Christianity is the largest religious group in the world, with an estimated 2.3 to 2.6 billion adherents in 2020.
The world has always been in a religious war with in Christianity as the Vatican is always creating wars to kill as many non Roman Catholic Christians as possible but will still add all Non Roman Catholic Christians to their numbers as they count their souls as their property and debts on their deaths.