This is the Mennonite World Conference's own published return of baptized membership figures for its member churches for 2024, hosted on the Conference's own website, distinguishing the world communion's counted membership from a separately reported, wider estimate of the whole Anabaptist-Mennonite family that includes bodies outside the Conference's own membership. Its strength is that a communion's own membership return is the primary source for how many baptized members its constituent churches report to it, the standard basis for denominational size figures used across religious studies. Its limit is that member reported figures depend on each national church's own record keeping and reporting practices, which vary in rigor, and the figure counts only member bodies, so a claim about the size of the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition as a whole should use the Conference's own wider estimate rather than the narrower member count alone.
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The Mennonite World Conference's own published 2024 membership return, hosted on the Conference's own website, is treated at the top tier as the primary source for a communion's counted membership, the standard basis for denominational size figures used across religious studies, notwithstanding that member reported figures depend on each national church's own record keeping. NotesThe world communion's own return of baptised membership in its member churches, with a separate wider count of the Anabaptist-Mennonite family including non-member bodies.
Citation
AuthorMennonite World Conference
PublisherMennonite World Conference
Publication Year2024
URLhttps://mwc-cmm.org/en/membership-map-and-statistics/
Source TypeCommunity record
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Custodian SourceYes
Custodian BodyMennonite World Conference
Custodian BasisThe world communion own membership statistics. Authoritative for what the communion counts of itself.
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This source names Mennonites directly: "This is the Mennonite World Conference's own published return of baptized membership figures for its member churches for 2024, hosted on the Conference's own website, distinguishing the world..."
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