EENI Global Business School

Catholics, Protestants, Orthodoxy (Christianity)


Share by Twitter

Syllabus of the Subject

Christians Denominations. Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Protestantism

  1. The three largest Christian Denominations:
    1. Catholics
    2. Protestants
    3. Orthodox
  2. Distribution of the World's Christian Population

Online Students, Master in International Business and Foreign Trade

The Subject “Christianity: Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox” belongs to the following Online Programs taught by EENI Global Business School:

Doctorate: Ethics, Religion & Business, African Business.

Doctorate in International Business (DIB) Online

Course: Christianity & Business.

Christianity and Global Business (Catholicism, Protestantism)

Masters: Religions & Business, International Business.

Masters in International Business and Foreign Trade (MIB)

Languages: Masters, Doctorate, International Business, English or Study Master Doctorate in International Business in Spanish Cristianismo Study Doctorate in International Business in French Christianisme.

Why study “Christianity and Business”?.

Orthodox Christianity, Ethics and Global Business

Christian Denominations.

Like almost all the religions, Christianity is not a homogeneous block.

Throughout its 2,000 years of history has experienced three major schisms, forming the three major Christian Denominations: Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox.

Catholics.

The Roman Catholicism, based in Rome, represents 50% of all Christendom. It is the majority in Central and Southern Europe, Ireland, and South America.

The Catholic Church has 1,100 million adherents worldwide, representing half of the World's Christian Population. Brazil has the largest number of Catholics in the World (134 million). There are more Catholics in Brazil than in Italy, France, and Spain together.

The ten countries with the largest number of Catholics (Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, the U.S., Italy, Colombia, France, Poland, Spain, and Congo DR) contain more than half (56%, 607 million) of the World's Catholics.

There are sixty-seven countries where Catholics are the majority of the population. Over 70% of Catholics live in the Americas (48%) and Europe (24%). Almost 40% live in Latin America and the Caribbean. More than a quarter of Catholics lives in the Asia-Pacific region (12%) and Sub-Saharan Africa (16%).

Protestants

The 801 million Protestants in the World constitute 37% of the World's Christian Population. The Protestant Reformation, which divided the Western-Christianity and gave birth to Protestantism, took place in Europe in the sixteenth century. Today, however, only two of the ten countries with the largest Protestant populations are European: The U.S., Nigeria, China, Brazil, South Africa, the UK, the DR Congo, Germany, Kenya, and India.

Orthodox

There are 260 million Orthodox Christians, who make up 12% of the World's Christian Population. Almost 40% of Orthodox Christians around the world (39%) reside in Russia, the country with the largest number of Orthodox. Ethiopia has the second-largest number of Orthodox.

All the other Christian traditions (Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses) represent 1% of all Christendom.

Number of Christians in the World by continent (Data in a million):

  1. America: 804
  2. Europe: 565
  3. Africa: 516
  4. Asia-Pacific: 285
  5. MENA (Middle East and North Africa): 13
Tradition

Catholics
Protestants
Orthodox
Others
Total
Christian estimated population (thousands of people)
1,094,610
800,640
260,380
28,430
2,184,060
% world's population

15.9
11.6
3.8
0.4
31.7
% of Christian Population
50.1
36.7
11.9
1.3
100

Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire in 380. Until 1054, Christianity formed a monolithic block (except small movements as Nestorians). That is, about half of its history, 1,000 years, Christianity has been unitary.

As we will see in the units on Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Protestantism, in the 11th century occurs the division between Catholicism and Orthodoxy. In the 16th century occurs Luther's reform, which will lead to Protestantism.

Religions and Business.

Gita-Ramakrishna Institute (Es).

Orthodoxy


(c) EENI Global Business School (1995-2024)
We do not use cookies
Top of this page

Knowledge leads to unity, but Ignorance to diversity