Editing Mennonites (section)

=== Organization worldwide ===
[[File:Henderson, Nebraska Bethesda Mennonite from SW 1.JPG|thumb|Bethesda Mennonite Church in Henderson, [[Nebraska]], U.S.]]
[[File:San Ignacio.jpg|thumb|Old Order Mennonite children from San Ignacio, Paraguay.]]

The most basic unit of organization among Mennonites is the church. There are hundreds or thousands of Mennonite churches and groups, many of which are separate from all others. Some churches are members of regional or area conferences. And some regional or area conferences are affiliated with larger national or international conferences. There is no single world authority on among Mennonites, however there is a Mennonite World Committee (MWC) includes Mennonites from 60 countries.<ref name=":0" /> The MWC does not make binding decisions on behalf of members but coordinates Mennonite causes aligning with the MWC's shared convictions.

For the most part, there is a host of independent Mennonite churches along with a myriad of separate conferences with no particular responsibility to any other group. Independent churches can contain as few as fifty members or as many as 20,000 members. Similar size differences occur among separate conferences. Worship, church discipline and lifestyles vary widely between progressive, moderate, conservative, Old Order and orthodox Mennonites in a vast panoply of distinct, independent, and widely dispersed classifications. There is no central authority that claims to speak for all Mennonites, as the 20th century passed, cultural distinctiveness between Mennonite groups has decreased.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mennonite – North America|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mennonite|access-date=9 March 2021|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|archive-date=2 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602150313/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mennonite|url-status=live}}</ref>

The largest Mennonite/Anabaptist groups are:

# [[Mennonite Brethren]] (426,581 members in 2010 worldwide)<ref name="GAMEO-MB">{{Cite web |last=Lohrenz |first=John H. |date=April 2011 |title=Mennonite Brethren Church |url=http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Mennonite_Brethren_Church&oldid=131032 |access-date=11 October 2016 |website=Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online |publisher=GAMEO |archive-date=12 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012083341/http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Mennonite_Brethren_Church&oldid=131032 |url-status=live }}</ref>
# [[Amish|Old Order Amish]] (383,565 members in 2023 worldwide)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/statistics/population-2023/ |title=Amish Population Profile, 2023 |date=2 September 2023 |website=Elizabethtown College, the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies |access-date=2 September 2023 |archive-date=2 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902140849/https://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/statistics/population-2023/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
# [[Meserete Kristos Church]] in Ethiopia (295,500 members in 2017; over 500,000 attendance)<ref>{{Cite web |title=In this Issue July 2017 |url=https://www.goshen.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/75/2017/09/3In-This-IssueJuly2017Final06032017.pdf |access-date=August 12, 2024 |website=Goshen College}}</ref>
# [[Old Colony Mennonites|Old Colony Mennonite Church]] (120,000 in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Bolivia, Paraguay, Belize and Argentina)
# ''Communauté Mennonite au Congo'' (86,600 members)<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 1, 2006 |title=Church of Christ in Congo - Mennonite Community in Congo |url=https://www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/church-of-christ-in-congo-mennonite-community-in-congo |access-date=August 12, 2024 |website=Oikoumene}}</ref>
# [[Old Order Mennonite]]s (60,000 to 80,000 members in the U.S., Canada and Belize)
# [[Mennonite Church USA]] (about 62,000 members in the United States)<ref>[https://www.mennoniteusa.org/who-are-mennonites/ Mennonite Church USA: ''Who Are The Mennonites''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516130046/https://www.mennoniteusa.org/who-are-mennonites/ |date=16 May 2022 }}, at mennoniteusa.org.</ref>
# ''Kanisa La Mennonite'' Tanzania (50,000 members in 240 congregations)
# [[Conservative Mennonites]] (30,000 members in over 500 U.S. churches)<ref name="2008 CLP church directory">2008 CLP church directory</ref>
# [[Mennonite Church Canada]] (26,000 members in 2018)<ref>Mennonite World Conference, [https://mwc-cmm.org/global-map Global map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205233104/https://mwc-cmm.org/global-map |date=5 February 2023 }}, mwc-cmm.org, Canada, retrieved 19 September 2022</ref>
# [[Church of God in Christ, Mennonite]] (24,400 members, of whom 14,804 (2013 data) were in U.S., 5,081 in Canada, and the remainder in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Europe)<ref name="CGCM WhereWeAre" />