The Hutterites

Denomination·Founded 1528 CE·est. 58,392 in 544 colonies in North America in 2024, from a Hutterite-published directory analysed by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies and published in the Journal of Plain Anabaptist Communities. Nearly three in four live in Canada: 20,999 in Alberta, 12,655 in Manitoba, 7,955 in South Dakota, 7,873 in Saskatchewan, 5,706 in Montana. The entire population descends from a few hundred survivors who reached South Dakota in the 1870s.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → Anabaptism → The Hutterites

Hutterites.orgYoung Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College

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Overview Belief 3How to Live 1Practice 1Stories & Scripture 1Community 1 You × The Hutterites Discussion

Stories

the narratives it tells itself
The cloak on the road from Nikolsburg. Expelled in 1528 and travelling with nothing certain ahead of them, the group stopped, laid a cloak on the ground, and each person put on it everything they had. The Chronicle sets this down as the founding act, and every colony still runs on it. Read it in full — context →

The Scriptures

the texts that carry the stories — and everything else

The Luther Bible

Das grosse Geschichtbuch — the Hutterite Chronicle

Peter Riedemann, Account of Our Religion (1540/45)

The Lehren — the sixteenth and seventeenth-century sermons

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

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