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Here's one poll dividing Christianity
The information comes from http://www.adherents.com/
"The data in the table below is from a summary article released by Gallup on 13 April 2001. The figures for 2001 are from a poll conducted in February 2001. The other figures represent aggregate figures from more than one poll conducted during the year shown.
| Year | % Catholic | % Southern Baptist | % other Baptist | % Methodist | % Presby- terian | % Episcopal | % Lutheran | % Pente- costal | % other Protestant | % Latter-day Saints
(Mormon) | % Eastern Orthodox | % Jewish | % Other specific | % None | % Undesig- nated |
| 2001 | 25 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 1 | * | 2 | 3 | 8 | 5 |
Major Traditional Branches of Christianity
(mid-1995; source: Encyclopedia Britannica)
| Branch | Number of Adherents |
| Catholic | 968,000,000 |
| Protestant | 395,867,000 |
| Other Christians | 275,583,000 |
| Orthodox | 217,948,000 |
| Anglicans | 70,530,000 |
Major Denominational Families of Christianity
(This table does not include all Christians. These numbers are estimates, and are here primarily to assist in ranking branches by size, not to provide a definitive count of membership.)
| Branch | Number of Adherents |
| Catholic | 1,050,000,000 |
| Orthodox/Eastern Christian | 240,000,000 |
| African indigenous sects (AICs) | 110,000,000 |
| Pentecostal | 105,000,000 |
| Reformed/Presbyterian/Congregational/United | 75,000,000 |
| Anglican | 73,000,000 |
| Baptist | 70,000,000 |
| Methodist | 70,000,000 |
| Lutheran | 64,000,000 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 14,800,000 |
| Adventist | 12,000,000 |
| Latter Day Saints | 12,500,000 |
| Apostolic/New Apostolic | 10,000,000 |
| Stone-Campbell ("Restoration Movement") | 5,400,000 |
| New Thought (Unity, Christian Science, etc.) | 1,500,000 |
| Brethren (incl. Plymouth) | 1,500,000 |
| Mennonite | 1,250,000 |
| Friends (Quakers) | 300,000 |
What I like personally is that Blogit's Christians will include all these denominations when they number Christians compared to other religions; then they will turn around and exclude tens of mjillions of these from their definition of "Christian" at other times; then of course exclude about 90 - 95% of these Christians from entering Heaven with them.
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on May 4, 2009 at 1:56 PM
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