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Assemblies of God

Pentecostal and Charismatic · 1914 · United States; worldwide

Some 300 Pentecostal ministers, largely of the 'finished work' stream, organized at Hot Springs in 1914 for cooperation, standards, missions, and publishing; the 1916 Statement of Fundamental Truths fixed its Trinitarianism amid the Oneness controversy. Now the largest white-majority-origin Pentecostal body worldwide.

Assemblies of God was formed in 1914. Assemblies of God continues today. Assemblies of God's institutional line runs back through Pentecostalism, The Holiness movement, Methodism, Church of England, Roman Catholicism to the post-apostolic church. No body on this tree is the assembly of Acts 2; where a body claims that, the claim appears in the claimed-lineage layer.

Between the post-apostolic church and Assemblies of God stand 4 divisions along the institutional line, counting separations and disputed forks, not mergers, renewals or national organizations.

At a glance

Formed
In 1914
Family
Pentecostal and Charismatic
Region
United States; worldwide
Key figures
E. N. Bell
Cause tags
Governance, Doctrine
Also known as
AG

What it separated from

  • Separated from Pentecostalism. The organization of the 'finished work' wing into a cooperative fellowship.

Bodies organized out of it or separated from it: Oneness Pentecostalism.

On the tree

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Solid lines are separations and unions; dashed lines are renewals that began inside a body; dotted gray lines are national organizations of one communion; a diamond marks a fork event where neither side is drawn as the one that left. Every line runs back to the post-apostolic church; no body descends from the assembly of Acts 2. Dashed gray boxes mark the institutional line after the apostles, shown as departure; no line of descent is drawn from Pentecost. A verdict appears on a box once its section is published.

Adherents

About 88,866,189 adherents (official census, as of 2024).

Source: Official — ag.org / World Assemblies of God Fellowship (c. 2024); 451,512 churches; self-aggregated across ~174 national councils (label as official-aggregate); US AG 2,984,352 adherents / 12,681 churches (2023)

Sources

Research compiled July 2026. Page data built 2026-10-31.