List of the largest Protestant denominations
It aims to include sizable Protestant communions, federations, alliances, councils, fellowships, and other denominational organisations in the world and provides information regarding the membership thereof.[n 2][1] Transdenominational organisations are very large and often characterized by overlapping membership as opposed to international and national bodies.Some of the national groupings cannot be considered churches in mainstream Protestant ecclesiology even when they constitute a single denomination.A good example is the Protestant Church in Germany, which differs denominationally and encompasses Lutheran, Reformed and United subchurches.International bodies tend to bring together only one Protestant branch which shares common founders, tenets and history.