Hutterites
Anabaptist · 1528–1533 · Moravia historically; US and Canadian Great Plains
The Anabaptist branch practicing full community of goods after Acts 2 and 4, organized in Moravia under Jakob Hutter; kept its communal life through four centuries of migration and persists in colonies across the North American plains.
Hutterites was formed between 1528 and 1533, as a process rather than a single event. Hutterites continues today. Hutterites's institutional line runs back through Anabaptist, Reformed, 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 Hutterites stand 4 divisions along the institutional line, counting separations and disputed forks, not mergers, renewals or national organizations.
At a glance
- Formed
- Between 1528 and 1533, as a process rather than a single event
- Family
- Anabaptist
- Region
- Moravia historically; US and Canadian Great Plains
- Key figures
- Jakob Hutter
- Cause tags
- Doctrine
- Also known as
- Hutterian Brethren
What it separated from
- Separated from Anabaptist. The communal branch of the movement, distinguished by community of goods.
On the tree
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.
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Research compiled July 2026. Page data built 2026-10-10.