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Pentecostal and Charismatic

Pentecostalism dates from Topeka in 1901 and the Azusa Street revival of 1906. From it came the Assemblies of God, the Church of God in Christ, the Oneness churches, the charismatic renewal inside the historic churches from 1960, and the independent networks where most of the world's counted denominations now live.

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.

Bodies in this family

  1. Church of God in Christ1897–1907

    C. H. Mason's holiness fellowship embraced the Pentecostal experience after Azusa Street and reorganized in 1907; today the largest African-American Pentecostal denomination. For decades after 1914 the Assemblies of God referred Black ordinands to COGIC — the racial history is stated factually on both nodes.

  2. Pentecostalism1901–1906 · continued

    The movement identifying baptism in the Holy Spirit, evidenced by speaking in tongues, as the believer's endowment of power — from Parham's Topeka school (1901) through Seymour's interracial Azusa Street mission (1906) to a worldwide family; divided from the start between Wesleyan 'second work' and 'finished work' wings.

  3. Oneness Pentecostalism1913–1916

    The stream holding baptism in Jesus' name and a non-trinitarian doctrine of the Godhead (Father, Son, and Spirit as titles of the one God whose name is Jesus); condemned by the AG in 1916, its ministers withdrew and organized separately — the Pentecostal movement's deepest doctrinal division.

  4. Assemblies of God1914

    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.

  5. The Charismatic renewal1960 · movement

    From 1960 the Pentecostal experience entered the historic denominations and, from 1967, the Roman Catholic Church, with participants remaining in their churches — a renewal, not a split, and the tree draws it as an overlay, the inverse of every other entry in this file.

  6. Neo-charismatic / independent networksc. 1980

    Independent congregations and networks practicing the gifts without classical Pentecostal or denominational identity — the fastest-growing segment of world Christianity and the segment where the great majority of the World Christian Encyclopedia's denomination count lives. The Tier 3 statistical fan-out band attaches primarily to this node.

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