English > Protestant denomination: 1 sense > noun 1, groupMeaning | group of Protestant congregations. |
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Member of | Protestant Church, Protestant | The Protestant churches and denominations collectively |
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Narrower | Anabaptist denomination | A Protestant sect denying infant baptism and baptising only believers |
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Anglican Church, Anglican Communion, Church of England | The national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs) |
Arminian Church | The Protestant denomination adhering to the views of Jacobus Arminius |
Assemblies of God | A charismatic Protestant denomination in the United States |
Baptist Church, Baptists | Any of various evangelical Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of voluntary believers |
Baptist denomination | group of Baptist congregations |
Christian Church, Disciples of Christ | A Protestant church that accepts the Bible as the only source of true Christian faith and practices baptism by immersion |
Christian Science, Church of Christ Scientist | Protestant denomination founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Mormon Church, Mormons | church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah |
Congregational Christian Church | merger of the Congregational Church and the Christian Church |
Congregational Church | A Protestant denomination holding that each individual congregation should be self-governing |
Evangelical and Reformed Church | A Protestant denomination of Calvinist faith |
Jehovah's Witnesses | Protestant denomination founded in the United States by Charles Taze Russell in 1884 |
Lutheran Church | The Protestant denomination adhering to the views of Martin Luther |
Mennonite Church | formed from the Anabaptist movement in the 16th century |
Methodist Church, Methodists | A Protestant denomination founded on the principles of John Wesley and Charles Wesley |
Methodist denomination | group of Methodist congregations |
Presbyterian Church | The Protestant denomination adhering to the views of John Calvin |
Unitarian Church | The Protestant denomination that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity |
United Church of Christ | merger of the Congregational Christian Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1957 |
Broader | denomination | A group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith |
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