Home›Open Questions›What Year Does the Several-Million Membership Estimate for Celestial Church of Christ Reflect?Open QuestionsWhat Year Does the Several-Million Membership Estimate for Celestial Church of Christ Reflect?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "What Year Does the Several-Million Membership Estimate for Celestial Church of Christ Reflect?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-year-does-the-celestial-church-of-christ-membership-estimate-reflect.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). What Year Does the Several-Million Membership Estimate for Celestial Church of Christ Reflect?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-year-does-the-celestial-church-of-christ-membership-estimate-reflectCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-what-year-does-the-several-million-membe, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {What Year Does the Several-Million Membership Estimate for Celestial Church of Christ Reflect?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-year-does-the-celestial-church-of-christ-membership-estimate-reflect}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe church has no central membership roll and has been repeatedly divided by succession disputes since the 1980s, so published estimates of several million adherents across more than five thousand branches are given as a general "by the early 2000s" figure rather than tied to one dated count.What would resolve this A dated count from the church's own worldwide administration, or a fielded survey in Nigeria and Benin asking about Celestial Church of Christ membership specifically, would anchor the estimate to an actual year.OpenDavid B. Barrett, Schism and Renewal in Africa: An Analysis of Six Thousand Contemporary Religious MovementsCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnCelestial Church of Christ, Denominations Well-attested Source Schism and Renewal in Africa: An Analysis of Six Thousand Contemporary Religious MovementsDavid B. Barretttier 1SourcesSchism and Renewal in Africa: An Analysis of Six Thousand Contemporary Religious Movementstier 1David B. Barrett, Oxford University Press, Nairobi, 1968View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year