Home›Christianity›Originated InBrowse ByOriginated InThis page groups denominations by the place their history traces to. Wikipedia notes that today "there are about 13 million Jews, about 40 per cent living in Israel and 40 per cent in the United States," the two centers where the modern Jewish denominational movements chiefly took shape. Browsing by place of origin lets a visitor see the geographic root of a denomination's own formation.FactsLearn MoreOriginated InSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedThe branches of Christianity, divided chiefly over authority - who may define doctrine - and over the sacraments, the ordering of ministry and the reading of scripture. The main fault lines are the Christological divisions of the fifth century, the East-West schism conventionally dated 1054, and the sixteenth-century Reformation. 2StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedContested: denomination arose in English-speaking Protestantism for bodies that recognise one another as legitimately named parts of one church. The Catholic and Orthodox churches do not accept it as a description of themselves. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedDenominations 1AttestationEra of AttestationWell-attestedThe first enduring divisions date from the Christological controversies of the fifth century, at Ephesus in 431 and Chalcedon in 451, and not from the Reformation. 2Learn MoreThe Branches of Christianity This group gathers the denominations of Christianity, the world's largest religion, whose two-thousand-year history has produced a wide family of churches divided by doctrine, authority, liturgy and history. The major fault lines are the split between the Eastern and Western churches (traditionally dated 1054) and the Reformation of the sixteenth century. The browser will find the great communions, Roman Catholicism, the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, and the many Protestant families (Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal and more), together with older and smaller bodies. The entries describe each branch's distinctive teachings and origins without treating any one as the standard against which the others are measured.Unity and division Christian denominations share the core confession of Jesus Christ while differing over questions such as church authority, the sacraments, the role of scripture and tradition, and the path of salvation. Some divisions are ancient and doctrinal; others are national, cultural or the result of later revival and reform. The atlas presents each denomination in its own terms, noting where it stands on the questions that separate it from others and how it understands its relation to the wider Christian body, from claims of unique continuity to the ecumenical movement that seeks reunion.Originated InFilter Results18 entriesModern AreaAllEgypt (1)England, the southern and largest of the four nations of the United Kingdom. (1)Iran (1)Iraq (1)North and South Korea (1)Scotland, the northern nation of the United Kingdom, with the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland. (1)South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. (1)Southwestern Nigeria, with the Yoruba-speaking areas of the Republic of Benin and Togo. (1)The Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo and northern Angola, the historic Kongo kingdom lying across the lower river. (1)The island of Great Britain and the United Kingdom built upon it, holding England, Scotland and Wales, with the Republic of Ireland having left that union in 1922. (1)The Tigray region of northern Ethiopia and the highlands of Eritrea, with the city of Aksum in Tigray; its ruins and stelae field have been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1980. (1)Principal Religious TraditionsAllAncient Egyptian religion (1)Ancient Mesopotamian religion (1)Buddhism (1)Christianity (1)Confucianism (1)Coptic Christianity (1)Established Christianity in two different settlements, Anglican in England and Presbyterian in Scotland; the Nonconformist churches; Roman Catholicism, with its hierarchy restored in 1850; and the Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Sikh communities of the imperial and post-imperial period. (1)Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Christianity, adopted by the kingdom in the fourth century, with a pre-Christian cult of South Arabian derivation before it and Islam present in the Red Sea ports from the first Muslim generation. (1)Islam (2)Kongo religion, with its cosmogram and its nkisi power objects; the Kongo Catholicism established after the ruler's baptism in 1491 and read through that older cosmology; and the prophetic churches of the twentieth century, of which Kimbanguism is the largest. (1)Korean shamanism (Muism) (1)Mandaeism (1)Manichaeism (1)Orisha worship under Olodumare with Ifa divination at its centre; Islam, long established and often held within the same families as the older tradition; and Christianity, in mission churches and in the Aladura churches founded by Yoruba Christians themselves. (1)San traditions, including the trance dance, among the longest attested religious practice on the continent; the ancestor-centred traditions of the Nguni and Sotho-Tswana peoples, with the Zulu amadlozi and the diviner's calling; mission Christianity from the nineteenth century; and the African Independent Churches, of which the Zion Christian Church is the largest. (1)Shia Islam (1)The Church of England, established under Henry VIII and settled under Elizabeth; Roman Catholicism, proscribed and later restored; the Nonconformist churches, Baptist, Congregational, Quaker and Methodist; and the Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Sikh communities of the modern country. (1)The Church of Scotland, Presbyterian in government since the Reformation settlement; the Scottish Episcopal Church; Roman Catholicism, continuous in the Highlands and islands and reinforced by Irish immigration; and the Free Church secessions of the nineteenth century. (1)Zoroastrianism (1)Sacred and Liturgical LanguagesAllAncient Egyptian, Coptic, and Arabic (1)Avestan, Middle Persian (Pahlavi), and Arabic (1)Classical Chinese and Korean (1)Ge'ez, the language of the Aksumite inscriptions and afterwards of the Ethiopian scriptures and liturgy, no longer spoken and retained for worship alone. (1)Kikongo, in which some of the earliest African-language Catholic catechisms were printed, alongside Latin and later French and Lingala in church use. (1)Latin before the Reformation and English afterwards, alongside Welsh and Gaelic in their own church traditions, with Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit and Punjabi in the communities settled since. (1)Latin before the Reformation, English and Scots after it, and Scottish Gaelic, which carries its own tradition of precented psalm singing in the Hebrides. (1)Latin until the Reformation and English after it, the Book of Common Prayer and the Authorised Version fixing much of the religious register of the language itself. (1)Sumerian, Akkadian, Mandaic, and Arabic (1)The Bantu languages themselves in ancestral address and praise poetry, with the Khoisan languages carrying San practice. The churches have used the vernaculars since the earliest translations. (1)Yoruba, which carries the Odu Ifa corpus and the orisha liturgy and which crossed the Atlantic as the Lucumi liturgical register of Cuba; Arabic for Islam, and English in much church use. (1)BrowseCompareAksumOriginated In1 entryBritainOriginated In1 entryCaliforniaOriginated In2 entriesCongoOriginated In1 entryEgyptOriginated In1 entryEnglandOriginated In5 entriesEthiopiaOriginated In1 entryGermanyOriginated In1 entryKoreaOriginated In1 entryMesopotamiaOriginated In1 entryMexicoOriginated In1 entryNew YorkOriginated In3 entriesPersiaOriginated In1 entryRomeOriginated In1 entryScotlandOriginated In2 entriesSouthern AfricaOriginated In1 entryUnited StatesOriginated In11 entriesYorubalandOriginated In1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editiontier 1F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2005View the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.