Denomination·Founded 1708 CE·est. 81,345 members in the United States in 2022, the last full denominational Yearbook figure, down from 91,608 in 2020 — a fall of more than ten thousand in two years. Membership passed below 100,000 in 2020 for the first time since the nineteenth century. Counts exclude the related Old German Baptist Brethren, Dunkard Brethren, Brethren Church and Grace Brethren, who separated in 1881-83 and 1883 and 1939.
Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → Anabaptism → The Church of the Brethren
Church of the BrethrenYoung Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College
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