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Christian Evangelical premillennial religious movement
Indian Brethren
Classification
Protestant
Orientation
Plymouth Brethren
Polity
Congregationalist
Region
India
Origin
1833
Congregations
1929[1]
Members
449,550 (including children)[1]
Ministers
2800 (ordained ministers and more than 4300 elders)[2]
Missionaries
250[3]
Tertiary institutions
11[2]
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Christianity in India
Communities
Bengali Christians
Bettiah Christians
Bombay East Indians
Marathi Christians
Meitei Christians
Mizo Christians
Naga Christians
Punjabi Christians
Saint Thomas Christians
Tamil Christians
Telugu Christians
People
Saint Thomas the Apostle
Saint Alphonsa
Saint Francis Xavier
Saint Gonsalo Garcia
Saint Euphrasia Eluvathingal
Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara
Saint Mother Teresa
Bl.Devasahayam Pillai
Mar Sabor and Mar Proth
Mar Baselios Eldho
Paremmakkal Thoma Kathanar
Thomas of Cana
Ignatius Elias III
Mar Gregorios of Parumala
Mar Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly
Mar Joseph C. Panjikaran
Mathews Mar Athanasius Metropolitan
Mar Geevarghese Dionysius
Abraham Malpan
Giuseppe Maria Bernini
Sadhu Sundar Singh
Palackal Thoma Malpan
Mar Augustine Kandathil
William Carey
Denominations
Saint Thomas Christian denominations
Catholic
Syro-Malabar Catholic, Syro-Malankara Catholic, Latin Catholic
Oriental Orthodox
Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
Independent Oriential Orthodox
Malabar Independent Syrian Church
Church of the East
Chaldean Syrian
Oriental Protestant Christian
Mar Thoma Syrian, St. Thomas Evangelical
Protestant denominations
Andhra Evangelical Lutheran, Assemblies Jehovah Shammah, Christian Revival Church, Church of North India, Church of South India, Garo Baptist, Indian Brethren, Indian Pentecostal Church of God, Church of God (Full Gospel), North Bank Baptist Christian, Northern Evangelical Lutheran, Methodist Church, Presbyterian, The Pentecostal Mission, Seventh-day Adventist, United Evangelical Lutheran
Organisations
National Council of Churches in India
All India Conference of Indian Christians
All India Catholic Union
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The Indian Brethren are a Christian Evangelical premillennial[4] religious movement. Although they have some distinct characteristics, they have a lot in common, in both doctrine and practice, with the international Open Brethren movement, with whom nearly all of them are historically affiliated.[5]
The Brethren in India, as in most other countries, do not usually regard themselves as a denomination in the usually understood sense, but rather as a largely informal network of like-minded autonomous local churches. They remain linked mostly through common support of missionaries, area conferences, youth ministries, and the work of itinerant preachers, who are usually called evangelists. The Brethren do not ordain clergy, and each local church, called an assembly, is led by a number of Elders.
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^The 'Brethren' movement - a briefing note, Jan 2013, p. 23, archived from the original on 1 February 2013, retrieved 12 Feb 2013
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