African initiated church

African churches are those churches and special forms of Christianity in Africa, which were not founded by European or American missionaries or colonialists of modern times. In addition to the Eastern Churches in Northeast and East Africa south of the Sahara are so meant mainly modern so-called Black African churches.

• African Initiated Churches ( Independent African Church -ups) Kimbanguist in Congo- Zaire, which follows its own prophets
• Zion Christian Church ( Zionchristliche Church ) in South Africa (as well as Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe), a Protestant secession, not to be confused with the evangelical direction of the Christian Zionism or the African-American African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in the USA

• Legio Maria in Kenya, a breakaway from the Catholic Church church with a black Jesus and their own Pope
• Aladura churches in Nigeria and West Africa, see also the religion of the Yoruba

Most of these churches are related to the Pentecostal movement. Some of them in sub-Saharan Africa are so strongly mixed with messianic, syncretistic, mystical and animist, partly Islamic and Jewish elements that, as can still be assigned to the African religions or Christianity rather sects.

The Christian Adherents.com database indicates that the African churches had worldwide with 110 million followers of the third largest Christian denomination group (after the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox Churches and in the Pentecostal movement). According to some authors should follow these independent churches more than a third of all African Christians. Others reportedly there should be at least one-fifth.