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PROTESTANT DENOMINATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Group of Protestant congregations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Protestant denomination" is a kind of...):
denomination (a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Protestant denomination"):
Assemblies of God (a charismatic Protestant denomination in the United States)
Mennonite Church (formed from the Anabaptist movement in the 16th century; noted for its simplicity of life)
Anabaptist denomination (a Protestant sect denying infant baptism and baptising only believers)
Methodist denomination (group of Methodist congregations)
Methodist Church; Methodists (a Protestant denomination founded on the principles of John Wesley and Charles Wesley)
Arminian Church (the Protestant denomination adhering to the views of Jacobus Arminius)
Unitarian Church (the Protestant denomination that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity)
Presbyterian Church (the Protestant denomination adhering to the views of John Calvin)
Lutheran Church (the Protestant denomination adhering to the views of Martin Luther)
Jehovah's Witnesses (Protestant denomination founded in the United States by Charles Taze Russell in 1884)
United Church of Christ (merger of the Congregational Christian Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1957)
Evangelical and Reformed Church (a Protestant denomination of Calvinist faith)
Congregational Christian Church (merger of the Congregational Church and the Christian Church)
Congregational Church (a Protestant denomination holding that each individual congregation should be self-governing)
Christian Science; Church of Christ Scientist (Protestant denomination founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866)
Baptist denomination (group of Baptist congregations)
Baptist Church; Baptists (any of various evangelical Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of voluntary believers)
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)
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)
Christian Church; Disciples of Christ (a Protestant church that accepts the Bible as the only source of true Christian faith and practices baptism by immersion)
Holonyms ("Protestant denomination" is a member of...):
Protestant; Protestant Church (the Protestant churches and denominations collectively)
