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)

• United Methodist Church
• Southern Baptist Convention
• Church of God in Christ via concept surface "Pentecostal denomination"
• Margaret Brown Campbell via concept surface "Christian movement"
  surface form: Restoration Movement
• Coptic Orthodox Church
• Community of Christ
• Syriac Orthodox Church
• Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
• Church of the Nazarene (USA)
• Evangelical churches via concept surface "Christian religious organization"
• Church of Christ (Temple Lot) via concept surface "Christian religious organization"
• Pietism via concept surface "religious movement"
• Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
• Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
• Desert Mothers via concept surface "Christian religious movement"
• Evangelical Reformed Church (regional church) via concept surface "Calvinist denomination"
• Evangelicalism via concept surface "Christian movement"
• Sadducees via concept surface "religious group"
• Zealots via concept surface "religious movement"
• Rastafari movement via concept surface "religious movement"
• Iglesia ni Cristo via concept surface "Christian religious organization"
• Protestant Church in the Netherlands via concept surface "Christian church body"
• Catholic Church in Haiti via concept surface "Christian religious organization"
• Christian Roma via concept surface "Christian community"
• Church of Scotland
• Radical Reformation via concept surface "religious movement"
• Polish National Catholic Church (historically)
  surface form: Polish National Catholic Church
• Hussite movement via concept surface "religious movement"
• Church of Sweden
• Louis Segond via concept surface "Protestant"
• Church of Norway
• Diocese of Taiwan via concept surface "Anglican diocese"
• Lutheran Church in America via concept surface "Lutheran denomination"
• Diocese of Toronto via concept surface "Anglican diocese"
• Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches
• Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship
• Coptic Evangelical Church via concept surface "Protestant Christian denomination"
• Christian Church via concept surface "Christian religious organization"
• United Church of Christ
• National Baptist Convention USA Inc. via concept surface "Baptist denomination"
• African Methodist Episcopal Church
• Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod via concept surface "Lutheran denomination"
• National Baptist Convention of America International Inc. via concept surface "Baptist denomination"
• Muscular Christianity via concept surface "Christian movement"
• Hungarian Reformed churches
• Church of Ireland
• Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
• Katharina von Bora via concept surface "Lutheran"
• Mahayana via concept surface "religious movement"
• Progressive National Baptist Convention via concept surface "Baptist denomination"