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

Stories

the narratives it tells itself
Sheep without a shepherd, and a priest who had known. Menno wrote that after the Oldeklooster he could no longer bear the sound of his own preaching. The story Mennonites tell about their founder is not a conversion in a flash of light but a slow, shameful arithmetic — that he had been right for years and comfortable for just as long. Read it in full — context →

The Scriptures

the texts that carry the stories — and everything else

The Bible

The Dordrecht Confession of Faith (1632)

The Schleitheim Confession (1527)

Martyrs Mirror (1660)

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

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