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→Missions: numbers
Each Protestant denomination launched missionary activity to spread the gospel, and they competed with each other and with Catholic missions.
Each Protestant denomination launched missionary activity to spread the gospel, and they competed with each other and with Catholic missions.
The greatest successes came in the United States, where a series of [[Great Awakenings]] converted most of the people to Protestantism by 1860, and in Africa, where Protestantism grew rapidly in the 20th century, as it did in South Korea.
The greatest successes came in the United States, where a series of [[Great Awakening]] converted most of the people to Protestantism by 1860, and in Africa, where Protestantism grew rapidly in the 20th century, as it did in South Korea.
==Numbers and Distribution in 1900==
One of the most striking facts in the history of Protestantism in the 19th century was its great expansion in North America.<ref> This section is based on [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc09.protestantism.html?highlight=schleiermacher#highlight F. Kattenbusch and Arthur C. A. Hall, "Protestantism" in ''New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge,'' (1911) Vol. IX]</ref> The United States by 1910 had the largest Protestant population of any land—from 65,000,000 to 66,000,000 (out of a total population of 79,000,000)<ref>According to the estimate of H. K. Carroll in W. D. Grant, ed. ''Christendom Anno Domini 1901'', (1902), i. 530–531</ref>, which is based upon the census of 1900. Britain probably comes next with 38,000,000 Protestants (total population 42,500,000) and Germany third with somewhat more than 35,000,000 (total population 56,000,000).<ref> H. Zeller's figures for the Eastern Church are 106,480,000, Orthodox; 8,130,000 "other [Eastern] Christians."; H. A. Krose, gives Greek Orthodox 109,000,000l schismatic Orientals, 6,554,913; Raskolniks (Russian dissenters), 2,173,371. Roman Catholics 265,000,000; Eastern Church 117,000,000.</ref>
'''Reformed Protestantism:'''
* Great Britain 20,500,000
**see [[Church of Scotland]]
* Germany 3,000,000
* Switzerland 2,000,000
* Netherlands 3,000,000
* Hungary 2,500,000
* France 500,000
* United States 65,000,000
* Canada 2,000,000
* Australia and New Zealand 1,500,000
* India 1,500,000
* South Africa 1,000,000
* Elsewhere 2,000,000
**Total Reformed 104,500,000
'''Lutheran:'''
*Germany 32,000,000
* Norway and Sweden 7,500,000
** see [[Church of Norway]]
* Denmark 2,500,000
* Finland and the Baltic Provinces 6,000,000
* Hungary 1,250,000
* United States 6,000,000
* Elsewhere 750,000
**Total Lutheran 56,000,000
'''Anglican:'''
*England 10,750,000
* Scotland and Ireland 750,000
* British Empire 4,000,000
* United States 2,500,000
** Total Anglican 24,000,000
'''Protestant missions''' 5,500,000
'''Grand Total 182,000,000'''
== Impact ==
== Impact ==