The Mennonites

Denomination·Founded 1536 CE·Around 1.44 million baptized members in the 110 national churches that belong to Mennonite World Conference, in about 10,400 congregations across 61 countries, as of the November 2025 census. MWC puts the wider Anabaptist family, including bodies outside its membership, at 2.03 million baptized in 87 countries. Roughly 84 percent of MWC members are African, Asian or Latin American. Baptized members only — children are not counted.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → Anabaptism → The Mennonites

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

Figures

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle Part of Belief →
M Menno Simons — the priest who counted the dead and resigned. A parish priest in Friesland who watched three hundred Anabaptists killed at the Oldeklooster in 1535, his own brother among them, and concluded that he had known better and said nothing. He resigned in January 1536 and spent the rest of his life under an imperial bounty, holding together congregations he could only visit at night. Domain The gathered church, nonresistance, the pastoral care of a hunted peopleStanding The body is named after him and he objected to that in his lifetime Meet them — context & 1 source →

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

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