Jehovah's Witnesses

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Jehovah's Witnesses
ClessificationNontrinitarian, restorationist
GovrenanceGovrenin Bouk
StructurHierarchical[1]
RegionWarldwide
FoonderCharles Taze Russell[2]
Oreegin1870s
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvanie, US
Branched fraeBible Student muivement
Congregations119,485
Members8.6 million
Offeecial wabsteidwww.jw.org/gd/
Stateestics frae 2017 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses[3]

Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination wi nontrinitarian beliefs distinct frae mainstream Christianity.[4]

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  1. "Court Trial Testimony Redwood City" (PDF). Superior Court of the State of California. 22 Februar 2012. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 13 Mey 2014. Retrieved 29 Apryle 2017. I am general counsel for the National Organization of Jehovah's Witnesses out of Brooklyn, New York. ... We are a hierarchical religion structured just like the Catholic Church.
  2. Stanley I. Kutler, ed. (2003). "Jehovah's Witnesses". Dictionary of American History (3rd ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-0-684-80533-7.
  3. "2019 Service Year Report Includes Largest Baptismal Figure in 20 Years". Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
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