45,000 Christian Denominations: Which One Is Right (If Any)?

During my research, I wanted to know how many Christian denominations there were. I expected maybe a hundred or something, so you can imagine my surprise when I found out that there are over 45 thousand Christian denominations!! Here’s a graphic of the main branches.

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Here’s a Wiki on this subject with data on how many people belong to each denomination world-wide.

List of Christian denominations by number of members - Wikipedia

The largest denomination of them all is the Catholic church at 50 percent, and the largest denomination within this is the Latin Church or the Roman Catholic Church at 1.2 billion members.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations_by_number_of_members

To quote from this wiki:

“The Catholic Church teaches that its bishops are the successors of Jesus’ apostles, and that the Pope is the successor to Saint Peter upon whom primacy was conferred by Jesus Christ.[5]”