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Protestant denomination

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Noun1.Protestant denomination - group of Protestant congregations
Protestant Church, Protestant - the Protestant churches and denominations collectively
Disciples of Christ, Christian Church - a Protestant church that accepts the Bible as the only source of true Christian faith and practices baptism by immersion
Anglican Church, Anglican Communion, Church of England - the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs); has its see in Canterbury and the sovereign as its temporal head
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
Baptist Church, Baptists - any of various evangelical Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of voluntary believers
Baptist denomination - group of Baptist congregations
Christian Science, Church of Christ Scientist - Protestant denomination founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866
Congregational Church - a Protestant denomination holding that each individual congregation should be self-governing
Congregational Christian Church - merger of the Congregational Church and the Christian Church
Evangelical and Reformed Church - a Protestant denomination of Calvinist faith
United Church of Christ - merger of the Congregational Christian Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1957
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
Presbyterian Church - the Protestant denomination adhering to the views of John Calvin
Unitarian Church - the Protestant denomination that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity
Arminian Church - the Protestant denomination adhering to the views of Jacobus Arminius
Methodist Church, Methodists - a Protestant denomination founded on the principles of John Wesley and Charles Wesley
Methodist denomination - group of Methodist congregations
Anabaptist denomination - a Protestant sect denying infant baptism and baptising only believers
Mennonite Church - formed from the Anabaptist movement in the 16th century; noted for its simplicity of life
denomination - a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith
Assemblies of God - a charismatic Protestant denomination in the United States


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