The International Churches of Christ

Movement·Founded 1979 CE·About 112,000 members in roughly 700 congregations across 147 or 148 nations, on the movement's own March 2024 reporting; its own site gives 107,000 in 767 congregations for a slightly different date. Membership peaked at about 135,000 in 2002 and fell after the 2003 crisis. All figures are self-reported and there is no independent audit.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → The Restoration Movement (Churches of Christ) → The International Churches of Christ

Branch

Community

who belongs, how you join, how it is organized
A movement that removed its own hierarchy. After 2003 the ICOC had no world leader and no central authority for over a decade, and congregations reorganised into voluntary regional families; a Catalyst Team and regional family chairs were established in 2017. The reconstruction is real and the litigation now pending concerns the years before it. Go deeper — context →
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