How many Protestant denominations are there?

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Depends on how you define denomination.

I would say roughly one. I mean, what’s the difference?
 
I think the article said around 200 were in the U.S.
 
I’m a proponent of the several thousand number because I consider each non-denominational Church pastor to be the leader of his/her own denomination.
 
AugustTherese said:
A Christian ecclesial community not in full communion with the Bishop of Rome.
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What make a group of churches a “ecclesial community” ? Some churches may belong to different groups of churches.

What’s the definition of “Christian”? If a group self identifies as Christian?

As far as your question, why do you think the answer is important? If the number is 40,000 or 400 or 36, does it really make a difference?
 
I will.

Now I need to sleep.

I normally think this is an American things yet I found that down from our street there is a Church?

I honestly wonder how this is counted. Should I count these people? I doubt they even know who Martin Luther is?
 
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I doubt they even know who Martin Lunther is?
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A lot of people don’t know who Martin Luther is.

I had a discussion back in my college days, where my friend insisted that Martin Luther was the civil rights activist, Martin Lutheran was the founder of Lutheranism.
 
That’s one source. There is another source from a Protestant seminary that estimated there are 47,000 different denominations.
 
Okay you got my respect there! Not sure many even looked further into that falacy!
 
It also depends on your definition of Protestant. It doesn’t necessarily mean non-Catholic Christian. There are denominations that are neither Catholic nor Protestant.
 
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AugustTherese:
A Christian ecclesial community not in full communion with the Bishop of Rome.
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What make a group of churches a “ecclesial community” ? Some churches may belong to different groups of churches.

What’s the definition of “Christian”? If a group self identifies as Christian?

As far as your question, why do you think the answer is important? If the number is 40,000 or 400 or 36, does it really make a difference?
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You have asked good questions, it is too bad they are not being answered. If the answer is 1 or 40,000 , it really should make no difference in the point of view of the Catholic Church. The only reason the OP thinks it is so important is that he polemically uses the large number to prove that division exists within the non-Catholic churches.
 
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