The Wikipedia article on the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the family of six churches (Coptic, Ethiopian Tewahedo, Eritrean Tewahedo, Armenian Apostolic, Syriac Orthodox and Malankara Orthodox Syrian) that accept only the first three ecumenical councils. It reports a 2018 estimate of more than 50 million worldwide members, a 2020 estimate of 72 million, and the six churches' own combined claimed total of approximately 87 million, alongside a table of each church's individual estimated and self-reported membership.
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Tertiary reference compiling multiple named estimates (a 2018 scholarly estimate, a 2020 estimate, and the six member churches' own claimed totals) rather than any single primary demographic study; the same one-remove standing already given to other Wikipedia compilations on this axis, chosen here because it is the one place these six churches' figures are gathered against each other in one table. Citation
PublisherWikimedia Foundation
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Churches
Source Typeencyclopedia
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- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
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