The Amish (Old Order)

Denomination·Founded 1693 CE·est. 410,955 in North America as of June 2025 — adults and children — in 3,114 church districts and 684 settlements across 32 states and three Canadian provinces. Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College. The population has roughly doubled since 2000 and doubles about every twenty years.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → Anabaptism → The Amish (Old Order)

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Branch
Overview Belief 3How to Live 1Practice 1Stories & Scripture 1Community 1 You × The Amish (Old Order) Discussion

Figures

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle Part of Belief →
J Jakob Ammann — the elder who would not bend, and then tried to. He split the Swiss Brethren in 1693 by demanding avoidance of the banned at the table as well as at communion, and by excommunicating the ministers who said no. In 1700 he put himself and his ministers under the ban and asked to be received back; the other side declined. Domain Discipline, the ban, the shape of the separated churchStanding The Amish are named after him and rarely speak of him Meet them — context →

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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