Editing Mennonites (section)

=== Organization: Europe ===
[[File:Mennonitenkirche zu Hamburg und Altona.JPG|thumb|Mennonite Church in Hamburg-Altona, Germany]]

Germany has the largest contingent of Mennonites in Europe. The Mennonite World Conference counts 47,202 baptized members within 7 organized bodies in 2015.<ref name="MWC stats">{{Cite web |title=Statistics |url=https://www.mwc-cmm.org/sites/default/files/website_files/mwc_world_directory_2015_statistics.pdf |access-date=21 September 2016 |website=Mennonite World Conference |publisher=MWC-CMM.org |archive-date=23 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123005111/https://mwc-cmm.org/sites/default/files/website_files/mwc_world_directory_2015_statistics.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> The largest group is the ''Bruderschaft der Christengemeinde in Deutschland'' (Mennonite Brethren), which had 20,000 members in 2010.<ref name="GAMEO-MB" /> Another such body is the Union of German Mennonite Congregations or ''Vereinigung der Deutschen Mennonitengemeinden''. Founded in 1886, it has 27 Congregations with 5,724 members and is part of the larger "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mennonitischer Gemeinden in Deutschland" or AMG (Assembly/Council of Mennonite Churches in Germany),<ref name="WCC AMG">{{Cite web |title=Member Churches – Mennonite Church in Germany |url=http://www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/mennonite-church-in-germany |access-date=21 September 2016 |website=World Council of Churches |date=January 1948 }}</ref> which claims 40,000 overall members from various groups. Other AMG member groups include: ''Rußland-Deutschen Mennoniten'', ''Mennoniten-Brüdergemeinden''(Independent Mennonite Brethren congregations), ''WEBB-Gemeinden'', and the ''Mennonitischen Heimatmission''.<ref name="AMGD">{{Cite web |title=Mennoniten in Deutschland |url=http://www.mennoniten.de/deutschland.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120428185957/http://www.mennoniten.de/deutschland.html |archive-date=28 April 2012 |access-date=6 November 2012 |publisher=Mennoniten.de}}</ref> However, not all German Mennonites belong to this larger AMG body. Upwards of 40,000 Mennonites emigrated from Russia to Germany starting in the 1970s.<ref name="WCC AMG" />

The Mennonite presence remaining in the Netherlands, ''Algemene Doopsgezinde Societeit'' or ADS (translated as ''General Mennonite Society''), maintains a seminary, as well as organizing relief, peace, and mission work, the latter primarily in Central Java and New Guinea. They have 121 congregations with 10,200 members according to the [[World Council of Churches]],<ref name="WCC ADS" /> although the Mennonite World Conference cites only 7680 members.<ref name="MWC stats" />

Switzerland had 1800 Mennonites belonging to 14 Congregations which are part of the ''Konferenz der Mennoniten der Schweiz (Alttäufer), Conférence mennonite suisse (Anabaptiste)'' ([[Swiss Mennonite Conference]]).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Switzerland |url=http://www.mwc-cmm.org/mwc_map/country/1205# |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927215228/http://www.mwc-cmm.org/mwc_map/country/1205 |archive-date=27 September 2016 |access-date=21 September 2016 |publisher=MWC-CMM.org}}</ref> 

In 2015, there were 2078 [[Mennonites in France]]. The country's 32 autonomous Mennonite congregations have formed the ''Association des Églises Évangéliques Mennonites de France''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=France |url=http://www.mwc-cmm.org/mwc_map/country/1076# |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927214645/http://www.mwc-cmm.org/mwc_map/country/1076 |archive-date=27 September 2016 |access-date=21 September 2016 |publisher=MWC-CMM.org}}</ref>

While Ukraine was once home to tens of thousands of Mennonites, in 2015 the number totalled just 499. They are organized among three denominations: ''Association of Mennonite Brethren Churches of Ukraine'', ''Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (Ukraine)'', and ''Evangelical Mennonite Churches of Ukraine (Beachy Amish Church – Ukraine)''.<ref name="MWC-Ukraine">{{Cite web |title=Ukraine |url=http://www.mwc-cmm.org/mwc_map/country/1224# |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927201255/http://www.mwc-cmm.org/mwc_map/country/1224 |archive-date=27 September 2016 |access-date=21 September 2016 |publisher=MWC-CMM.org}}</ref>

The U.K. had but 326 members within two organized bodies as of 2015.<ref name="MWC stats" /> There is the Nationwide Fellowship Churches (UK) and the larger Brethren in Christ Church United Kingdom.<ref>{{Cite web |title=United Kingdom |url=http://www.mwc-cmm.org/mwc_map/country/1226# |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927214454/http://www.mwc-cmm.org/mwc_map/country/1226 |archive-date=27 September 2016 |access-date=21 September 2016 |publisher=MWC-CMM.org}}</ref> Additionally, there is the registered charity, ''The Mennonite Trust'' (formerly known as "London Mennonite Centre"), which seeks to promote understanding of Mennonite and Anabaptist practices and values.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Mennonite Trust |url=http://www.menno.org.uk/ |access-date=21 September 2016 |publisher=Menno.org |archive-date=3 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003222114/http://menno.org.uk/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>