[These churches are also sometimes called “Free churches.” Many are also called Anabaptist. The links have been moved to a separate page due to length. Click the link above.]

Anglican and Episcopal churches

[These listings now have their own page due to their length. Click the link above.]

Apostolic-succession independent churches

[“Independent” in the sense that they are in apostolic succession, but not wholly within the Anglican, Catholic, or Orthodox traditions. The independent apostolic-succession church listings now have their own page due to their length. Click the link above.]

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Baptist churches

[The Baptist church listings now have their own page due to their length. Click the link above.]

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Christian Churches (Stone-Campbell Movement)

► Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

► Christian Churches/churches of Christ [unofficial]

Christian Churches and Churches of Christ generally

Christian Churches and Churches of Christ

From the BELIEVE information Website

Encyclopedia of Religion in the South (Christian Churches and Churches of Christ)

At the Center for Restoration Studies

► Christian Congregation, The

► Churches of Christ (non-instrumental) [unofficial]

[Divided by Melton into Conservative, Non-Sunday School, One-Cup, Pre-millennial, and Pentecostal branches, but none have any central structure.]

Churches of Christ (non-instrumental) generally

Churches of Christ

From Wikipedia

Churches of Christ Network

► Evangelical Christian Church, Inc., The

► International Churches of Christ [unofficial]

► Tioga River Christian Conference [no Website]

► Restoration tradition churches outside North America

■ Community of Disciples of Christ (DR Congo) [Communaute de Disciples du Christ] [no Website]

General Restoration Stone-Campbell

Christian Church Denominations

Restoration Movement

Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement Resources

World Convention of Churches of Christ

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Church of God churches

[Note: The 11^th edition of Mead and Hill no longer lists “Church of God” as a category of Protestant denominations. Instead they are scattered between Adventist, Pentecostal and other entries. Avowedly Adventist and sabbitarian “churches of God” are entered in the “Adventist churches” section on this page. Most others are in the Pentecostal and Apostolic churches page. For Worldwide Church of God and its offshoots, see the bottom of this page in the “Unclassified Protestant churches” section. The Church of God (Anderson, IN) is a Holiness church.]

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Community churches

► Community Churches, International Council of

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Congregational churches (including United Churches)

[Looking for Congregational tradition churches outside of North America Click here.]

► Congregational Christian Churches in Canada

► Congregational Christian Churches, National Association of

► Conservative Congregational Christian Conference

► Midwest Congregational Christian Church [no online site]

► United Church of Canada

► United Church of Christ

► Congregational and United churches outside the U.S. [Listed on separate Web page]

Congregationalism generally

Congregationalism

A reference page maintained by the Ketishtown Congregational Church (UK)

International Congregational Fellowship

Online resource hosted by Congregational Federation in the United Kingdom

World Evangelical Congregational Fellowship

An international evangelical Congregational union

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Fundamentalist/Bible churches

[Click here for a note on the differentiation between “Holiness,” “Apostolic,” Pentecostal,” and “Fundamentalist and Bible” churches.]

► American Evangelical Christian Churches

AECC generally

American Evangelical Bible College

► Berean Fellowship of Churches

Berean Churches

Berean Community Church [Rochester, MN]

Cheyenne [WY] Berean Church

Crete [NE] Berean Church

Grenada [CA] Community Berean Church

Lincoln [NE] Berean Church

Oak Lake [Maitoba] Berean Bible Church

BFC generally

Fellowship History

Maranatha [NE] Bible Camp

► Bible Presbyterian Church

► Fellowship of Fundamental Bible Churches

► Grace Gospel Fellowship

► IFCA International (fmr. Independent Fundamental Churches of America)

► Maranatha Christian Fellowship Church

► Plymouth Brethren

► Rhema Ministries

■ Rhema Bible Church aka Kenneth Hagin Ministries, Inc. [founding location]

■ Rhema Austria

■ Rhema Brazil

■ Rhema Colombia

■ Rhema Germany

■ Rhema India

■ Rhema Italia

■ Rhema Mexico

■ Rhema Ministries [South Africa]

■ Rhema Ministries Europe

■ Rhema Romania

■ Rhema Singapore

■ Rhema South Pacific

► Fundamentalist churches outside North America

■ Church of the Christian Alliance (Burkina Faso) [Eglise de l` Alliance chretienne]

■ Evangelical Church of Cameroon [Eglise evangelique du Cameroun]

■ Evangelical Community in Congo [Communaute evangelique du Congo]

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“Hebrew-Christian” or “Messianic-Jewish” groups

[Note: generally, churches and groups included here accept Jesus Christ as Messiah but also believe that observance of God’s Law as given to the Jewish people is still required, or believe that it is possible for Jews to accept Christ without losing Jewish or Hebrew tradition. I’m not sure that all the groups listed here would agree that they are correctly listed. Many regard themselves as “Jewish” or “Hebrew.” The Task Force on Missionaries and Cults of the Jewish Community Relations Council emphatically argues that they are not Jewish. I would appreciate feedback on whether such groups should be listed here or on the Cults, Sects, and New Religious Movements page.]

► Ariel Ministries

► Arm of Salvation

► Chosen People Ministries

► Church of God and Saints of Christ [“Christian Israelites”]

► Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry

► Hope Of Israel Baptist Mission

► Jews for Jesus

► Jesus Messiah Fellowship

► Messianic Jewish Alliance of America

► Messianic Jewish Movement International

► New Covenant Church of God - B'rit Chadashah Assembly of Yahweh

► New Covenant House Church Fellowship

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Holiness churches

[Click here for a note on the differentiation between “Holiness,” “Apostolic,” Pentecostal,” and “Fundamentalist and Bible” churches.]

► American Rescue Workers

► Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection of Churches

► Association of Fundamental Ministers & Churches [No online site]

► Bible Fellowship Church

► Bible Holiness Church [No online site]

► Bible Holiness Movement [No online site]

► Bible Methodist Connection of Churches [Listed here because of its membership in the IHC]

► Bible Methodist Connection of Tennessee [No online site]

► Bible Missionary Church

► Christ Holy Sanctified Church of America [No online site]

► Christian and Missionary Alliance, The

► Christian Nation Church, U.S.A. [No online site]

► Christian Union

► Christ's Sanctified Holy Church

► Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A.

► Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)

► Church of God (Guthrie, OK)

► Church of God (Holiness)

► Church of God (Independent Holiness People) [No online site]

► Church of God (Sanctified Church) [No online site]

► Church of God (Which He Purchased with His Own Blood) [No online site]

► Church of the Bible Covenant [No online site]

► Church of the Nazarene

► Churches of Christ in Christian Union

► Churches Of God (Holiness) [No online site]

► Evangelical Congregational Church

► Evangelical Church of North America

► Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada

► Evangelical Wesleyan Church [No online site]

► Evangelistic Missionary Fellowship [No online site]

► Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas

► Free Methodist Church in Canada

► Free Methodist Church of North America

► God’s Missionary Church

► Gospel Spreading Church [No online site]

► Grace and Hope Mission [No online site]

► Independent Conservative Holiness Churches

► International Conservative Holiness Association

► Independent Holiness Churches of Canada

► Lumber River Annual Conference of the Holiness Methodist Church [No online site]

► Metropolitan Church Association (“Burning Bush Movement”) [No online site]

► Missionary Church

► Missionary Methodist Church of America

► Mount Calvary Holy Church Of America

► National Association of Holiness Churches [No online site]

► Parkville Bible Church [No online site]

► Pilgrim Holiness Church of New York, Inc.

► Pilgrim Holiness Church of the Midwest [No online site]

PHC of the Midwest generally

Union Bible College

Seminary for the PHC of the Midwest

► Pilgrim Nazarene Church

► Pillar of Fire, Inc.

► Rescue Missions, Association of Gospel

► Salvation Army

► Salvation Army, Canada and Bermuda

► Triumph the Church and Kingdom of God in Christ

► True Jesus Church

► United Holiness Church of North America [No online site]

► Voice of the Nazarene Association of Independent Churches

► Volunteers of America

► Wesleyan Church, The

► Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches

► Wesleyan Tabernacle Association [No online site]

► Holiness and Apostolic churches outside of North America

■ Ecuadorian Evangelical Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance [Iglesia Evangelica Ecuatoriana Alianza Cristiana y Misionera]

■ Immanuel General Mission [Japan] [No online site]

Holiness and Apostolic churches generally

American Holiness Movement

An essay by R V Pierard in Walter A. Elwell, Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1984, quoted on the BELIEVE Religious Information Source Website

Christian Holiness Partnership

The purpose of the Partnership is to promote the message of Scriptural Holiness, mostly through camp meetings

Holiness churches and ministries

On the Free Gospel Bible Institute Website

Holiness and Pentecostal Churches: Emerging from Cultural Isolation

An essay by Donald W. Dayton, associate professor of historical theology at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary

Importance of The Pentecostal and Holiness Churches in The Ecumenical Movement

On the Ecudocs: Ecumenism and Mission page hosted by the Boston Theological Institute

National Association of Evangelicals

Several Holiness denominations are members

Towards The Common Expression of The Apostolic Faith Today

On the Ecudocs: Ecumenism and Mission page hosted by the Boston Theological Institute

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Lutheran

[Looking for the ELCA? Click here. Looking for Lutheran churches outside of North America? Click here.]

► American Association of Lutheran Churches

► Apostolic Lutheran Church of America

► Association of Free Lutheran Congregations

► Association of Free Lutheran Congregations in Canada

► Association of Independent Evangelical Lutheran Churches

► Augustana Orthodox and Evangelical Lutheran Synod [No online site]

Augustana Orthodox and Evangelical Lutheran Synod generally

NEWS BRIEFS - Christianity Today Magazine

Advent Lutheran Church in Roseville, MN, joins synod

► Canadian Association of Lutheran Congregations

► Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America

► Church of the Lutheran Confession

► Concordia Lutheran Conference

► Conservative Lutheran Association

► Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Abroad

► Evangelical Catholic Church

► Evangelical Community Church — Lutheran

► Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

ELCA generally

Roots of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

► Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (Eielsen Synod)

► Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

► Evangelical Lutheran Conference and Ministeriuim

► Evangelical Lutheran Federation [No online site]

► Evangelical Lutheran Synod

► Fellowship of Lutheran Congregations

► “Independent”, non-synodical, Lutheran churches
[Note: the general principal for this site is to include only “denominations” or “churches” in the listings. In that regard, this site generally follows the policy used in Mead, Hill, and Atwood’s Handbook of Denominations in listing only groups with at least two parishes. But there are several loosely-aligned Lutheran churches, that are self-described “independent” churches but which share similar outlooks (many calling themselves “Confessional” Lutherans). So I have included their listings here.]

■ A Mighty Fortress Lutheran Church [Glendale, AZ]

■ Bethany Lutheran Church [New Ulm, PA]

■ Concordia Lutheran Church (Lutherska Konkordiekyrkan) [Hägersten, Sweden]

■ Cristo Nueastra Justicia Independent Confessional Lutheran Fraternity Congregation [Buenos Aires, Argentina]

■ Holy Cross Lutheran Church [Midland, MI] [No online site]

■ Immanuel Gemeinde Evangelical Lutheran Church [Steeden, Germany]

■ Mighty Fortress Orthodox Evangelical Lutheran Church [Anaheim, CA]

■ New Hope Lutheran Church [Newport News, VA]

► International Lutheran Fellowship

► Laestadian Lutheran Church

► Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America [No online site]

► Lithuanian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Diaspora (Lietuviu Evangeliku Liuteronu Bažnycia Išeivijoje) [No online site]

► Lutheran Church — Protestant Conference [No online site]

► Lutheran Church — Canada

► Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod

► Lutheran Churches of the Reformation

► Lutheran Conference of Confessional Fellowship

► Lutheran Confessional Synod

► Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ

► Lutheran Ministerium and Synod - USA

► Norwegian Seamen's Mission

► Protest’ant Conference [No online site]

Protest’ant Conference generally

The Lutheran Resource Page: Information on the Protest'ant Conference

From the Lutheran Resource Site

God's Message to Us in Galatians: The Just Shall Live By Faith

The paper delivered by Pastor W.F. Beitz that became the focal point of the Protes'tant Controversy

► Renewal in Missouri

► The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod

► Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod

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► Lutheran Churches outside of North America

■ Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference [listed on separate page]

■ International Lutheran Council [listed on separate page]

■ Lutheran World Federation [listed on separate page]

Lutherans generally

A Little Lecture On Little-Known Lutheran Synods

A paper by E. C. Fredrich presented at the Metropolitan North Pastoral Conference 1983, Milwaukee, WI

Lutheran Central - Connecting Lutherans

Lutheran Central is a very useful Web information resource

Lutheran Church Bodies in North America

Valparaiso University, Office of Church Relations, Lutheran denomination finder

Lutheran Theology Web Site

David Jay Webber’s very comprehensive Web reference

Pastor Zip’s Lutheran Web Links

A quite useful resource compiled by Pr. Steven Paul Tibbetts, Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Peoria, IL

Pastor Zip's International Lutheran Web Links

And another of Pr. Tibbetts’ pages

The Lutheran Resource Page: Home pages

From the Lutheran Resouce Site

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Methodist

► African Methodist Episcopal Church

► African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

► African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church and Connection, Inc.

► Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection [No online site]

► Association of Independent Methodists

► British Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada [No online site]

BME Canada generally

S.R. Drake Memorial Church (Brantford, ON), British Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada

Website of a member church

► Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

Christian Methodist Episcopal Church generally

Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

► Congregational Methodist Church

► Evangelical Methodist Churches

► Evangelical Methodist Church (Kingsport, TN)

► Fellowship of Fundamental Bible Churches

► First Congregational Methodist Church of the U.S.A. [No online site]

► Free Christian Zion Church of Christ [No online site]

► International Fellowship of Bible Churches

► Fundamental Methodist Church, Inc. [Unofficial]

► Methodist Protestant Church [No online site]

► New Congregational Methodist Church [No online site]

► Primitive Methodist Church in the U.S.A.

► Reformed Methodist Union Episcopal Church [No online site]

► Reformed Zion Union Apostolic Church [No online site]

► Southern Congregational Methodist Church

► Southern Methodist Church

► Union American Methodist Episcopal Church [No online site]

► United Methodist Church

► Methodist Churches outside North America

■ Methodist Church in Ireland

■ Methodist Church in Wales [No online site]

■ Methodist Church of Great Britain

■ Uniting Church in Australia

■ United Church of Canada

Methodism generally

All the divisions in American Methodism

From Linda Morgan Clark’s “Kansas Methodism” Webpage

Divisions and Reunions in North American Methodism

A timeline complied on the University Evangelical Methodist Church of Denton, TX, Website

Faith In Action - One Voice for Christ - Official Website of The United Methodist Church

A resource on the history of Methodism, from the United Methodist Church’s site

Methodism and Fundamentalism: A Survey BJU -- J. S. Mack Library

A site on the J.S. Mack Library site at Bob Jones University

World Methodist Council

A resource for finding Methodist churches outside of North America

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Native American Christian churches

► Cherokee Prayer Initiative

► Eagle’s Wings Ministry

► Spirit of the Eagle Ministries

► Wiconi International

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Pentecostal and Apostolic churches

[These churches are listed on a separate page due to their large number. Click link above.]

[Click here for a note on the differentiation between “Holiness,” “Apostolic,” Pentecostal,” and “Fundamentalist and Bible” churches. Read the note also for information on why this section is sub-divided into “families” of Pentecostal and Apostolic churches.]

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Pietist churches

[Note: Amish churches are listed under Mennonite and Anabaptist churches]

► Church of the United Brethren in Christ [Entered here because it is the continuing church after the 1899 split in which the breakaway group became part of the Methodist Church]

► Evangelical Congregational Church

► Evangelical Covenant Church

► Evangelical Free Church of America

► Moravian churches

■ Moravian Church (Unitas Fratrum) in America

■ Moravian Churches (Unitas Fratrum) outside North America

o Mission Association of the Moravian Church in Germany

o Moravian Church in Denmark

o Moravian Church in Great Britain and Ireland

o Moravian Church in the Netherlands

■ United Christian Church (Cleona, PA) [No online site]

■ Unity of the Brethren

► Pietist-tradition churches outside North America

■ Evangelical Community in Ubangi-Mongala (DR Congo) [Communaute evangelique en Ubangi-Mongala]

■ Evangelical Community of Christ in Ubangui (DR Congo) [Communaute evangelique du Christ en Ubangui]

■ Evangelical Covenant Church [Iglesia del Pacto Evangelico en el Ecuador]

■ Evangeligal Free Church of Finland [Suomen Vapaakirkko]

■ Free Mission Covenant Church (Finland) [Fria Missionsförbundet]

■ Swedish Mission Covenant Church

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Presbyterian

[Looking for Presbyterian churches outside of North America? Click here.]

► American Reformation Presbyterian Church

► Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church

► Associated Presbyterian Churches in Canada

► Cumberland Presbyterian Church

► Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America

► Evangelical Presbyterian Church

► Free Presbyterian Church

► Korean American Presbyterian Church [미주한인예수교장로회]

► Korean Presbyterian Church in America, General Assembly of the

► Orthodox Presbyterian Church

► Presbyterian Church in America

► Presbyterian Church in Canada

► Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

► Presbyterian Reformed Church

► Reformed Presbyterian Church (Covenanted) [Steelite Covenanters]

► Reformed Presbyterian Church General Assembly

► Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America

► Ukrainian Evangelical Alliance of North America [No online site]

► Upper Cumberland Presbyterian Church

► Presbyterian Churches outside North America [Listed on separate Web page]

Presbyterian Churches generally

International Conference of Reformed Churches

Only member churches describing themselves as “Presbyterian” are listed here.

Reformed Ecumenical Council

Worldwide association of Reformed churches. Churches describing themselves as “Presbyterian” are listed under that here.

World Alliance of Reformed Churches

Generally, members of the WARC are listed in either here or in the Congregational sections.

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Protestant ecumenical- and mixed-tradition churches
[Such as the Union of Union of the Waldensian and Methodist Churches in Italy or the many churches in Africa founded by missionaries of more than one church. These churches have their own Webpage. Click here.]

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Reformed churches

[Looking for Reformed churches outside of North America? Click here .]

► Canadian and American Reformed Churches

► Christian Reformed Church in North America

► Churches of God, General Conference

► Federation of Orthodox Christian Reformed Churches [no Web site – defunct?]

► Free Reformed Churches of North America

► Greek Evangelical Church [Ελληνική Ευαγγελική Εκκλησία]

[In the “Reformed Churches” section due to its membership in the Reformed Ecumenical Council. Listed here due to its parishes in Boston and Toronto. See listing in Reformed Churches outside the North America for main church in Greece.]

► Heritage Reformed Congregations

► Hungarian Reformed Church in America

► Netherlands Reformed Congregations

► Protestant Reformed Churches in America

► Reformed Church in America

► Reformed Church in the United States

► Reformed Church of Quebec [Église Réformé du Québec]

► United Reformed Churches in North America

► Reformed Churches outside North America [listed on separate Web page]

Reformed Churches generally

International Conference of Reformed Churches

Association of Reformed churches (generally “liberated” Reformed churches). Churches describing themselves as “Presbyterian” are listed under that section.

Liberated Reformed Churches

An explanation of what “reformed-liberated” means.

Reformed Ecumenical Council

Worldwide association of Reformed churches. Churches describing themselves as “Presbyterian” are listed under that section.

World Alliance of Reformed Churches

Generally, members of the WARC are listed in either the Presbyterian or the Congregational sections.

Übersicht South Africa

Information on various Reformed Churches in South Africa.

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Unclassified Protestant denominations and churches

NB: This section includes: Christian churches with what Melton terms a “Communal” tradition (Melton, p. 615, see full citation to book on the References page); churches with heterodox doctrine and/or no readably apparent descent from one of the historical Protestant streams; and, what Melton terms “mail order churches” (Melton, p. 583). To avoid any pejorative connotation, I categorize this last category as “Individual membership churches” to reflect the fact that many have few if any fixed congregations and tend to have seminaries whose students are largely pursuing “distance” education.

► Communal churches

■ Amana Church Society

► Heterodox denominations

■ Alliance for Renewal Churches

■ Metropolitan Community Churches, Universal Fellowship of

■ New Apostolic Church

■ Worldwide Church of God

■ Worldwide Church of God spin-offs

□ Associates for Scriptural Knowledge

□ Association for Christian Development

□ Church of God Southern California