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Largest denominations in the world

Catholicism – 1.2 billion

Catholic Church – 1,147 million^[1]
- Roman Catholic Church (Latin Rite) – 1,129.9 million
- Eastern Catholic Churches (Eastern Rite) – 17.1 million
  - Alexandrian
    - Ethiopian Catholic Church – 0.21 million
    - Coptic Catholic Church – 0.17 million
  - Antiochian (Antiochene or West Syrian)
    - Maronite Catholic Church – 3.1 million
    - Syro-Malankara Catholic Church – 0.5 million
    - Syriac Catholic Church – 0.17 million
  - Armenian
    - Armenian Catholic Church – 0.54 million
  - Chaldean (Eastern Syrian)
    - Syro-Malabar Catholic Church – 4.0 million
    - Chaldean Catholic Church – 0.65 million
  - Byzantine (Constantinopolitan)
    - Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church – 4.3 million
    - Melkite Greek Catholic Church – 1.6 million
    - Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic – 0.8 million
    - Ruthenian Catholic Church – 0.65 million
    - Slovak Greek Catholic Church – 0.37 million
    - Hungarian Greek Catholic Church – 0.29 million
    - Italo-Greek Catholic Church – 0.07 million
    - Croatian Greek Catholic Church – 0.06 million
    - Belarusian Greek Catholic Church – 0.01 million
    - Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church – 0.01 million
    - Georgian Byzantine Catholic Church – 0.01 million^[2]
    - Macedonian Greek Catholic Church – 0.01 million
    - Albanian Greek-Catholic Church – 0.01 million
    - Greek Byzantine Catholic Church – 0.01 million
    - Russian Catholic Church – 0.01 million
Breakaway Catholic Churches – 28 million
- Apostolic Catholic Church – 5 million
- Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association – 4 million^[3]
- Philippine Independent Church – 3 million
- Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church – 1 million
- Old Catholic Church – 0.6 million
- Mariavite Church – 0.03 million

Protestantism – 670 million

Historical Protestantism – 350 million
- Baptist churches – 105 million^[4]
  - Southern Baptist Convention – 16.3 million^[5]
  - National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. – 7.5 million^[6]
  - National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. – 5 million^[7]
  - Nigerian Baptist Convention – 3 million^[8]
  - Progressive National Baptist Convention – 2.5 million^[9]
  - American Baptist Churches USA – 1.4 million
  - Brazilian Baptist Convention – 1.4 million
  - Baptist Bible Fellowship International – 1.2 million^[10]
  - Myanmar Baptist Convention – 1.1 million^[11]
  - Baptist Community of the Congo River – 1 million^[11]
  - National Baptist Convention, Brazil – 1 million
  - National Primitive Baptist Convention of the U.S.A. – 1 million^[10]
  - National Missionary Baptist Convention of America – 1 million
  - Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches – 0.8 million^[12]
  - Baptist Convention of Kenya – 0.7 million^[11]
  - Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists of Russia – 0.6 million
- Methodism – 75 million
  - United Methodist Church – 12 million
  - African Methodist Episcopal Church – 3 million
  - Methodist Church Nigeria – 2 million^[13]
  - African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church – 1.5 million
  - Church of the Nazarene – 1.9 million
  - Methodist Church of Southern Africa – 1.7 million^[14]
  - Korean Methodist Church – 1.5 million^[15]
  - United Methodist Church of Ivory Coast^[16]
  - Christian Methodist Episcopal Church – 0.9 million
  - Methodist Church Ghana – 0.8 million^[17]
  - Free Methodist Church – 0.7 million
  - Methodist Church in India – 0.6 million^[18]
- Lutheranism – 87 million^[19]
  - Evangelical Church in Germany – 26.9 million^[20]
  - Church of Sweden – 6.9 million
  - Evangelical Lutheran Church in America – 4.8 million
  - Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus – 4.7 million
  - Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania – 4.6 million^[21]
  - Danish National Church – 4.5 million
  - Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland – 4.3 million^[22]
  - Batak Christian Protestant Church – 4 million^[23]
  - Church of Norway – 3.9 million
  - Malagasy Lutheran Church – 3 million
  - Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod – 2.4 million
  - The Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria – 1.7 million^[24]
  - United Evangelical Lutheran Church in India – 1.5 million^[25]
  - Evangelical Lutheran Church in Papua New Guinea – 0.9 million^[26]
  - Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church – 0.8 million^[27]
  - Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil – 0.7 million^[28]
  - Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia – 0.6 million^[29]
  - Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa – 0.6 million^[30]
- Reformed churches – 75 million
  - Presbyterianism – 40 million
    - Presbyterian Church of East Africa – 4 million^[31]
    - Presbyterian Church of Africa – 3.4 million^[32]
    - Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) – 3.0 million
    - United Church of Canada – 2.5 million
    - Church of Christ in Congo–Presbyterian Community of Congo – 2.5 million^[33]
    - Presbyterian Church of Korea – 2.4 million^[34]
    - Presbyterian Church of Cameroon – 1.8 million^[35]
    - Church of Scotland – 1.1 million^[36]
    - Presbyterian Church of the Sudan – 1 million^[37]
    - Presbyterian Church in Cameroon – 0.7 million^[38]
    - Presbyterian Church of Brazil – 0,7 million ^[39]
    - Presbyterian Church of Ghana – 0.6 million^[40]
    - Presbyterian Church of Nigeria – 0.5 million^[41]
    - Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa – 0.5 million^[42]
    - Presbyterian Church in America – 0.3 million
  - Continental Reformed churches – 30 million
    - Church of Jesus Christ in Madagascar – 3.5 million^[43]
    - United Church of Zambia – 3.0 million^[44]
    - Protestant Church in the Netherlands – 2.5 million^[45]
    - Swiss Reformed Church – 2.4 million
    - Evangelical Church of Cameroon – 2 million^[46]
    - Protestant Evangelical Church in Timor – 2 million^[47]
    - Christian Evangelical Church in Minahasa – 0.7 million^[48]
    - United Church in Papua New Guinea – 0.6 million^[49]
    - United Church of Christ in the Philippines – 0.6 million^[50]
    - Protestant Church in Western Indonesia – 0.6 million^[51]
    - Evangelical Christian Church in Tanah Papua – 0.6 million^[52]
    - Protestant Church in the Moluccas – 0.6 million^[53]
    - Reformed Church in Hungary – 0.6 million^[54]
    - Reformed Church in Romania – 0.6 million^[55]
    - Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa – 0.5 million^[56]
  - Congregationalism – 5 million
    - United Church of Christ – 1.2 million
    - Evangelical Congregational Church in Angola – 0.9 million^[57]
    - United Congregational Church of Southern Africa – 0.5 million^[58]
- Anabaptism and Free churches – 5 million
  - Schwarzenau Brethren/German Baptist groups – 1.5 million^[59]
  - Mennonites – 1.5 million
  - Plymouth Brethren – 1 million^[60]
  - Moravians – 0.7 million^[61]
  - Amish – 0.2 million
  - Hutterites – 0.2 million
- Quakers – 0.4 million
- Waldensians – 0.05 million
Modern Protestantism – 274 million^{[citation needed]}
- Pentecostalism – 130 million
  - Assemblies of God – 60 million
  - New Apostolic Church – 11 million
  - International Circle of Faith – 11 million^[62]
  - The Pentecostal Mission – 10 million
  - Church of God (Cleveland) – 9 million
  - International Church of the Foursquare Gospel – 8 million
  - Church of God in Christ – 6 million
  - Apostolic Church – 5.5 million
  - Christian Congregation of Brazil – 2.5 million
  - Universal Church of the Kingdom of God – 2 million
  - Church of God of Prophecy – 1 million
  - God is Love Pentecostal Church – 0.8 million
  - Indian Pentecostal Church of God – NA
- Non-denominational evangelicalism – 80 million
  - Calvary Chapel – 25 million
  - Born Again Movement – 20 million
  - Association of Vineyard Churches – 15 million
  - New Life Fellowship – 10 million^{[citation needed]}
  - True Jesus Church – 2.5 million
  - Charismatic Episcopal Church – NA
- African initiated churches – 40 million
  - Zion Christian Church – 15 million
  - Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim – 10 million
  - Kimbanguist Church – 5.5 million
  - Church of the Lord (Aladura) – 3.6 million^[63]
  - Council of African Instituted Churches – 3 million^[64]
  - Church of Christ Light of the Holy Spirit – 1.4 million^[65]
  - African Church of the Holy Spirit – 0.7 million^[66]
  - African Israel Niniveh Church^[67]
- Seventh-day Adventist Church – 17 million
- Restoration Movement – 7 million
  - Churches of Christ – 5 million
  - Christian Churches and Churches of Christ – 1.1 million^[10]
  - Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) – 0.7 million

Eastern Orthodoxy – 210 million

Autocephalous churches
- Russian Orthodox Church – 125 million
- Romanian Orthodox Church – 18 million
- Serbian Orthodox Church – 15 million
- Church of Greece – 11 million
- Bulgarian Orthodox Church – 10 million
- Georgian Orthodox Church – 5 million
- Greek Orthodox Church of Constantinople – 3.5 million
- Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch – 2.5 million
- Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria – 1.5 million
- Orthodox Church in America – 1.2 million
- Polish Orthodox Church – 1 million
- Albanian Orthodox Church – 0.8 million
- Cypriot Orthodox Church – 0.7 million
- Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem – 0.14 million
- Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church – 0.07 million
Autonomous churches
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) – 7.2 million^[68]
- Moldovan Orthodox Church – 3.2 million
- Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia – 1.25 million
- Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia – 0.62 million
- Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric – 0.34 million
- Estonian Orthodox Church – 0.3 million
- Patriarchal Exarchate in Western Europe – 0.15 million
- Finnish Orthodox Church – 0.08 million
- Chinese Orthodox Church – 0.03 million
- Japanese Orthodox Church – 0.02 million
- Latvian Orthodox Church – 0.02 million
Non-universally recognized churches
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) – 5.5 million^[68]
- Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church – 2.4 million
- Macedonian Orthodox Church – 2 million
- Orthodox Church of Greece (Holy Synod in Resistance) – 0.75 million
- Old Calendar Romanian Orthodox Church – 0.50 million
- Old Calendar Bulgarian Orthodox Church – 0.45 million
- Croatian Orthodox Church – 0.36 million
- Montenegrin Orthodox Church – 0.05 million
- Orthodox Church in Italy – 0.12 million
Other separated Orthodox groups
- Old Believers – 1.8 million
- Greek Old Calendarists – 0.86 million
- Russian True Orthodox Church – 0.85 million

Oriental Orthodoxy – 75 million

Autocephalous churches in communion
- Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church – 45 million
- Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria – 15.5 million
- Syriac Orthodox Church – 10 million
- Armenian Orthodox Church – 8 million
- Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church – 2.5 million
- Indian (Malankara) Orthodox Church – 2 million^[69]
- Armenian Orthodox Church of Cilicia – 1.5 million
Autonomous churches in communion
- Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church – 1.2 million^[70]
- Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople – 0.42 million
- Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem – 0.34 million
- French Coptic Orthodox Church – 0.01 million
- British Orthodox Church – 0.01 million
Churches not in communion
- Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church – 1.1 million
- Malabar Independent Syrian Church – 0.06 million

Anglicanism – 82 million

Anglican Communion – 80 million^[71]
- Church of Nigeria – 18 million
- Church of England – 13.4 million
- Church of Uganda – 8.8 million
- Church of South India – 3.8 million
- Anglican Church of Australia – 3.7 million
- Episcopal Church in the Philippines – 3.0 million
- Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia – 2.5 million
- Anglican Church of Tanzania – 2.5 million
- Anglican Church of Southern Africa – 2.4 million
- Episcopal Church of the United States – 2.2 million
- Anglican Church of Canada – 2.0 million
- Anglican Church of Kenya – 1.5 million
- Church of North India – 1.3 million
- Church of the Province of Rwanda – 1 million
- Church of Pakistan – 0.8 million
- Anglican Church of Burundi – 0.8 million^[72]
- Church of the Province of Central Africa – 0.6 million
- Church of Christ in Congo–Anglican Community of Congo – 0.5 million^[73]
- Scottish Episcopal Church – 0.4 million
- Church of Ireland – 0.4 million
Continuing Anglican movement – 1.5 million
- Traditional Anglican Communion – 0.5 million
- Anglican Church in North America – 0.1 million

Nontrinitarianism – 27 million

Latter Day Saint movement (Mormonism) – 14 million
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – 13.5 million^[74]
- Community of Christ – 0.25 million^[75]
Jehovah’s Witnesses – 7.1 million
Iglesia ni Cristo – 6 million^[76]
Oneness Pentecostalism – 6 million
- United Pentecostal Church International – 4 million
- Pentecostal Assemblies of the World – 1.5 million
Church of Christ, Scientist – 0.4 million
Friends of Man – 0.07 million
Christadelphians – 0.05 million

Nestorianism – 1 million

Assyrian Church of the East – 0.5 million
Ancient Church of the East – 0.3 million

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