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Official web sites of various U.S. denominations:

For convenience, we sort Christian denominations into four groups: the Anglican Community, Eastern Orthodox churches, Protestant denominations, and Roman Catholicism. This is one of many common classification methods.

It is important to keep in mind that Fundamentalist, other Evangelical, mainline, and liberal Protestant denominations vary greatly in beliefs, teachings and practices. Some consider them so different that they form two different religions

The approximate size of each church, in millions of members, is listed for large U.S. denominations -- those over a half-million in membership. Data is unreliable, because denominations use different counting methods of varying accuracy. The Christian Science church does not publish membership numbers. Information is taken from the Time Almanac 2002, Page 435:

Anglican Communion:

	Anglicans Online: http://anglicansonline.org/
	Episcopal Church in the USA (2.4): http://www.ecusa.anglican.org/
	Anglican Domain Committee: http://anglican.org/ They have links to all known Anglican web sites at: http://anglican.org/official/

Eastern Orthodox:

	Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (2.0): http://www.goarch.org/
	Orthodox Church in America (1.0): http://www.oca.org/

Protestant denominations:

	African Methodist Episcopal Church (2.5): http://www.ame-church.com
	African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (1.3): http://www.theamezionchurch.org/
	American Baptist Churches in the USA (1.5): http://www.abc-usa.org/
	Assemblies of God (2.5): http://www.ag.org/
	Baptist Bible Fellowship International (1.2): http://www.bbfi.org/
	Canadian Evangelical Christian Churches (?): http://www.cecconline.com/
	Christian Churches / Churches of Christ (1.1): http://www.cwv.edu/
	Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) (0.9): http://www.disciples.org/
	Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (0.7): http://www.c-m-e.org/
	Church of Christ, Scientist: http://www.tfccs.org
	Church of God in Christ (5.5): http://www.cogic.org/
	Church of God (Cleveland TN) (0.8): http://www.chofgod.org/
	Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (4.9): http://www.lds.org/
	Church of the Nazarene (0.6): http://www.nazarene.org/
	Churches of Christ (1.5): http://www.church-of-christ.org/
	Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (5.2): http://www.elca.org/
	Jehovah's Witnesses (1.0): http://www.watchtower.org/
	Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (2.6): http://www.lcms.org/
	National Baptist Convention, U.S.A. (8.2): http://www.nationalbaptist.com/ It is also called the National Baptist Convention of America. Their Youth and Children's Convention has a home page at: http://members.aol.com/nbyc1/
	National Missionary Baptist Convention of America (2.5): http://www.natl-missionarybaptist.com/
	Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (1.5): http://members.tripod.com/paw_inc/
	Presbyterian Church (USA) (3.6): http://www.pcusa.org/
	Progressive National Baptist Convention (2.5): http://www.pnbc.org/
	Seventh Day Adventists (0.8): http://www.adventist.org/
	Southern Baptist Convention (15.7): http://www.sbc.net/sbcsplash/
	United Church of Christ (1.4): http://www.ucc.org/
	United Methodist Church (8.4): http://www.umc.org/

Roman Catholic Sources (62):

	The Vatican: http://www.vatican.va/phome_en.htm
	Vatican Information Service: http://www.vatican.va/news_services/
	U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops: http://www.nccbuscc.org/

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Membership numbers, in hundreds of thousands, are given in parentheses. Data is taken from the 1991 census. They will often not agree with membership claims by individual denominations, because the latter use different counting methods of varying accuracy.

Anglican Church (2,188): http://www.anglican.ca/

Baptist Churches (663):

	Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec: http://www.baptist.ca
	Baptist General Conference at Canada: http://www.bgc.ca/
	The Baptist Union of Western Canada: http://www.buwc.ca/
	The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada: http://www.fellowship.ca/
	l'Union d'Eglises Baptistes Fran�aises au Canada: http://www.unionbaptiste.com/
	United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces: http://www.baptist-atlantic.ca/index.shtml

Lutheran Churches (636):

	Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada: http://www.elcic.ca/
	Lutheran Church - Canada: http://www.lutheranchurch.ca/

Pentecostal (436):

	Apostolic Church of Pentecost of Canada: http://www.acop.ca/
	Italian Pentecostal Church of Canada: http://www.the-ipcc.org/
	Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada: http://www.paoc.org/
	Pentecostal Assemblies of Newfoundland and Labrador: http://www.paon.nf.ca/
	Pentecostal Holiness Church of Canada: http://www.phcc.ca/

Presbyterian Church in Canada (636): http://www.presbyterian.ca/

Roman Catholic Church (11,210): http://www.cccb.ca/

United Church of Canada (3,093): http://www.uccan.org/home.htm

Reference:

Statistics Canada's Internet Site, full URL of source pages, and date of extraction."Population by religion, 1981 & 1991 census," Adapted from Statistics Canada's Internet Site at: http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/, on 2002-JAN-18

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