[HarleyD]

You’re wasting your time with me. The statistical evidence speaks volumes.

I would suggest you funnel your concerns to Oxford University Press to the attention of David A. Barrett. He’s the one who developed this schema. You may wish to check into his methodology for determining denominations.

Meanwhile, you have not provided me any evidence that would suggest these various Catholic organizations are not dominations. I just would like to know which are you; Latin-rite local, Latin-rite catholic, Latin/Eastern-rite local, Latin/Eastern-rite catholic, Syro-Malabarese, Ukrainian, Romanian, Maronite, Melkite, Chaldean, Ruthenian, Hungarian, plural Oriental rites, Syro-Malankarese, Slovak, and Coptic, or other?

[conservonator]

Meanwhile, you have not provided me any evidence that would suggest these various Catholic organizations are not dominations. I just would like to know which are you; Latin-rite local, Latin-rite catholic, Latin/Eastern-rite local, Latin/Eastern-rite catholic, Syro-Malabarese, Ukrainian, Romanian, Maronite, Melkite, Chaldean, Ruthenian, Hungarian, plural Oriental rites, Syro-Malankarese, Slovak, and Coptic, or other?

Show me where each of these or any of these rites or churches differ with each other on dogma.

[SoothingDave]

You’re wasting your time with me.

Probably. Can you tell me, in a few words, what the definition of "denomination" is meant to be in this study? That seems to be the sticking point.

The Catholic, correctly IMO, sees the question as one of both a shared doctrine and a shared leadership. All of the Catholic "denominations" you list share both the voluminous teachings of the Catholic Catechism and the leadership of the Pope.

Protestant denominations share neither a non-trivial core of teachings nor any leadership. Hence they are distinct.

SD