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)

• National Missionary Baptist Convention of America via concept surface "Baptist denomination"
• Pure Land Buddhism via concept surface "religious movement"
• Anabaptist churches via concept surface "religious movement"
• Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church
• Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
• Bible Student movement via concept surface "religious movement"
• Evangelical Presbyterian Church
• Presbyterian Church (USA)
• Philippine Independent Church
• Separatists via concept surface "English Protestant religious group"
• American Protestantism via concept surface "Protestantism"
• Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths) via concept surface "religious movement"
  surface form: Five-Percent Nation
• Friends Church
• alumbrados via concept surface "religious movement"
• diocese of St Helena via concept surface "Anglican diocese"
  surface form: Diocese of St Helena
• Eritrean Catholic Church
• Evangelical Church in Germany via concept surface "church federation"
• Latter-day Saint movement churches via concept surface "religious movement"
• Copts via concept surface "Christian community"
• Free Methodist Church
• Christian Methodist Episcopal Church via concept surface "Methodist denomination"
• Vincentian via concept surface "Christian movement"
• Gomarists via concept surface "religious movement"
• Counter-Remonstrants via concept surface "religious movement"
• Azusa Street Revival via concept surface "religious movement"
• Foursquare Church via concept surface "Pentecostal Christian denomination"
• Diocese of Honduras via concept surface "Anglican diocese"
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
• Soka Gakkai via concept surface "religious movement"
• Old Catholic Church of Germany
• Pythagoreanism via concept surface "religious movement"
• Old Catholic Church of Poland
• Din-i Ilahi via concept surface "religious movement"
• Esoteric Christianity via concept surface "Christian movement"
• Joseph Lytel Russell via concept surface "Christian religious movement"
  surface form: Bible Student movement
• Old Catholic Church of France
• Transcendentalism via concept surface "religious movement"
• Old Catholic Church in the Philippines
• Amish via concept surface "Christian religious group"
• Religious Zionism via concept surface "religious movement"
• Moravian Church in America via concept surface "Christian church body"
• Lollardy via concept surface "Christian movement"
• Polish Brethren via concept surface "Christian religious movement"
• Socinians via concept surface "Christian movement"
• Hungarian Unitarian Church
• Wesleyan Methodist Church
• Diocese of Monmouth via concept surface "Anglican diocese"
• Diocese of Ecuador Central via concept surface "Anglican diocese"
• Kharijism via concept surface "religious movement"
• Kiribati Uniting Church via concept surface "Protestant Christian denomination"