Brethren (religious group)

Late Middle Ages

• Apostolic Brethren, mendicant order similar to the Franciscans
• Kalands Brethren, German charitable organization
• Brethren of the Free Spirit, mystical reform movement
• The Brethren of the Common Life, intentional communities dedicated to service
• The Moravian Church, also known as United Brethren, Unitas Fratrum, and Bohemian Brethren, descend from the followers of Jan Hus, a Czech reformer burned at the stake in 1415 and Bohemian 15th-century nobleman and theologian Petr Chelčický
• The Unity of the Brethren, also traces its roots to the work of Hus and Chelčický

  Anabaptist groups

• The Hutterites, also known as Hutterian Brethren, originated from German, Swiss, and Tyrolean Anabaptists led by Jacob Hutter in the 1520s
• The Swiss Brethren, the name Swiss Anabaptists used from 1525 until their split into Amish and Mennonite groups in 1693
• The Mennonite Brethren, originated among Russian Mennonites in 1860

  Schwarzenau Brethren

Traditionalists

• Old German Baptist Brethren, part of the Old Order Movement
• *Old Brethren, a denomination that split from the Old German Baptist Brethren in 1913 and 1915
• **Old Brethren German Baptist, also known as Leedyites, the most conservative denomination of Schwarzenau Brethren. They live in Indiana and Missouri
• *Old Order German Baptist Brethren, a small very conservative denomination
• *Old German Baptist Brethren, New Conference, formed in 2009 as a result of a split among the Old German Baptist Brethren

  Conservatives

• Church of the Brethren, based in Elgin, Illinois
• *Dunkard Brethren, a small conservative denomination that withdrew from the Church of the Brethren in 1926

  Progressives

• The Brethren Church, based in Ashland, Ohio
• *Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, a theologically conservative denomination that split from the Brethren Church in 1939
• *Conservative Grace Brethren Churches, International, a conservative denomination that separated from the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches

  Plymouth Brethren

• Exclusive Brethren
• *Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, also known as Raven-Taylor-Hales Brethren
• *Local churches, also known as Church Assembly Hall
• Open Brethren
• *Gospel Hall Brethren, also known as Gospel Hall Assemblies
• *Needed Truth Brethren, also known as Churches of God
• *Indian Brethren, an Evangelical premillennial religious movement
• *Kerala Brethren, Assembly, also known as Verbada Sabha

  River Brethren

• Brethren in Christ Church, an Anabaptist Christian denomination with roots in the Mennonite church, pietism, and Wesleyan holiness. They have also been known as River Brethren and River Mennonites
• Church of the United Brethren in Christ, an evangelical denomination based in Huntington, Indiana. It split in 1889 when the majority adopted a new constitution:
• *Church of the United Brethren in Christ
• *Church of the United Brethren in Christ
• Evangelical United Brethren
• Old Order River Brethren

  Other religious groups

• Apostolic United Brethren, a Mormon fundamentalist group
• The Brethren, an apocalyptic Jesus people movement from the 1970s
• Brethren of Purity, a secret society of Muslim philosophers in the 8th or 10th century CE
• The Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America is neither Anabaptist nor Pietistic, but is the result of a late 19th-century spiritual awakening among Lutheran congregations in the upper Midwestern United States. They formed a separate synod in 1900.
• Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, a Czech Lutheran–Reformed Protestant church
• The Polish Brethren, also known as Socinians, were an Anti-trinitarian group, forerunners for the Unitarians
• The Social Brethren originated in Saline County, Illinois in 1867, the result of an attempt to put the slavery issue away in favor of uniting on a common belief in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ
• Studite Brethren, a society in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
• United Brethren, a group of Methodists who later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• The United Seventh-Day Brethren, an Adventist body
• "The Brethren", a collective name for the general authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints