Christian denomination

A Christian denomination is an organized branch within Christianity that shares a distinct set of doctrines, practices, governance structures, and traditions while affirming core Christian beliefs.

Observed surface forms (40)

• religious movement ×43
• Anglican diocese ×22
• Christian movement ×10
• Reformed denomination ×8
• Christian religious movement ×6
• Christian religious organization ×6
• Presbyterian denomination ×6
• religious group ×6
• Baptist denomination ×5
• Methodist denomination ×5

• Calvinist denomination ×4
• Christian church body ×4
• Protestant ×4
• Protestant tradition ×4
• Christian community ×3
• Lutheran denomination ×3
• Protestant Christian denomination ×3
• Christian religious group ×2
• Christian religious sect ×2
• Evangelical denomination ×2
• Lutheran ×2
• church denomination ×2
• Calvinist movement ×1
• Christian church communion ×1
• Christian denomination in the Netherlands ×1
• Christian religious tradition ×1
• English Protestant religious group ×1
• French Protestant ×1
• Pentecostal Christian denomination ×1
• Pentecostal denomination ×1
• Protestant church tradition ×1
• Protestant community ×1
• Protestantism ×1
• Reformed tradition ×1
• church federation ×1
• ecclesiological movement ×1
• form of Christianity ×1
• historic religious organization ×1
• restorationist church ×1
• restorationist denomination ×1

Instances (210)

• Diocese of Colombia via concept surface "Anglican diocese"
• Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland
• Theodore Beza via concept surface "French Protestant"
• Christian Reformed Church in North America via concept surface "Reformed denomination"
• Friends via concept surface "Christian religious movement"
  surface form: Religious Society of Friends
• Liberal Friends via concept surface "religious movement"
• Conservative Friends via concept surface "religious group"
• Methodist churches
• Old Catholic Church of the Czech Republic
• Anglican Church of Southern Africa
• Restorationism via concept surface "Christian movement"
• Old Catholic Church of Croatia
• Episcopal Church
• Pastoral Friends via concept surface "Christian religious group"
• Return to Zion via concept surface "religious movement"
• Unitarianism via concept surface "religious movement"
• Old Catholic Church of Italy
• Old Catholic Church of Slovakia
• Russian Orthodox Church
• Pentecostal churches
• JehovahsWitnesses via concept surface "Christian religious movement"
  surface form: Jehovah's Witnesses
• Old Catholic Church of Sweden and Denmark
• Greek Orthodox Church
• Serbian Orthodox Church
• Romanian Orthodox Church
• Diocese of Puerto Rico via concept surface "Anglican diocese"
• Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht via concept surface "Christian church communion"
• Georgian Orthodox Church
• Puritanism via concept surface "religious movement"
• Antiochian Orthodox Church
• Pilgrims via concept surface "religious group"
• Churches of Christ
• Orthodox Church of Alexandria
• Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
• Christian anarchism via concept surface "Christian movement"
• Orthodox Church of Cyprus
• Gothic Christianity via concept surface "form of Christianity"
• Orthodox Church of Albania
• New Hope Baptist Church, Newark, New Jersey via concept surface "Christian religious organization"
• Cipriano de Valera via concept surface "Protestant"
• Seventh-day Adventist Church
• Orthodox Church in America
• Orphic Mysteries via concept surface "religious movement"
• Diocese of Chichester via concept surface "Anglican diocese"
• Reformed churches via concept surface "Christian religious tradition"
• Church of Christ, Scientist
• Diocese of Bath and Wells via concept surface "Anglican diocese"
• Counter-Reformation via concept surface "religious movement"
• Religious Society of Friends via concept surface "Christian religious movement"
• Diocese of Truro via concept surface "Anglican diocese"