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Tradition collection 8,680 records

Christianity

Its branches, councils, saints, offices and buildings — and where they stopped recognising each other.

  • Extent Worldwide, 1st century CE to the present.
  • Holds 3,334 figures · 2,576 places · 1,353 traditions · 2,591 institutions, offices, houses and objects
Begin with a figure

Before you count

Wikidata's coverage of Christianity is far denser than of any other tradition here, which distorts every count that compares them.

What else it is missing

Figures · 3,334

Who to meet first

The figures its own texts, stories and traditions name — the most widely linked first, this collection’s own before those it shares.

All 3,334 figures

More of its best-linked figures

Places · 2,576

Holy places and sites

Temples, tombs, holy cities and sites recorded in this collection, the most widely linked first. A place is not a count of believers.

All 2,576 places

2,576 places 2,576 with a point on the map 2,190 with a date 12 archaeological sites

See them on the atlas

The oldest on record

The earliest recorded starts among its best-known places, by 1000 CE, in date order. Each date is the place’s own — a city’s founding, a building’s — not the start of this tradition there.

  1. 2200 BCE Nazareth
  2. 19 BCE Western Wall
  3. c. 2nd century CE Pantheon
  4. attested 4th century CE Saint Catherine Monastery
  5. 303 CE Etchmiadzin Cathedral
  6. 327 CE Church of the Nativity
  7. 335 CE Church of the Holy Sepulchre
  8. 386 CE Basilica of Saint Paul outside the Walls

Where they gather

Cities and sites with two or more of its places recorded in them — counted from each place’s own location.

Traditions · 1,353

Many paths, shared histories

The traditions, schools and movements this collection holds — each with its own page.

All 1,353 traditions

Institutions, offices, houses and objects · 2,591

Institutions, offices, houses and objects

Recorded in this collection, the most widely linked first. An office is a line of holders, not a family. A ruling house’s affiliation is the family’s, not its subjects’ practice.

All 2,443 institutions All 132 offices

Events · 413, 385 dated

Events, in time order

The 12 most widely linked, set out by their own dates on the historical clock.

All 413 events
  1. 325 CE

    First Council of Nicaea

    May 325 CE – July 325 CE Council of Christian bishops in Nicaea, 325
  2. 381 CE

    First Council of Constantinople

    May 381 CE – July 381 CE 381 AD council of Christian bishops
  3. 431 CE

    First Council of Ephesus

    22 June 431 CE – 31 July 431 CE Ecumenical council in Ephesus in June–July 431, convened by Emperor Theodosius II
  4. 451 CE

    Council of Chalcedon

    8 October 451 CE – 1 November 451 CE Synod
  5. 787 CE

    Second Council of Nicaea

    24 September 787 CE – 23 October 787 CE Ecumenical council of the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church (787 AD)
  6. 1054 CE

    East-West Schism

    July 1054 CE Division of Christianity into two large parts in 1054
  7. 1378 CE

    Western Schism

    1378 CE – 1417 CE Split within the Catholic Church from 1378 to 1417, in which bishops in Rome and Avignon both claimed to be the pope, joined by a third line of Pisan popes in 1409
  8. 1414 CE

    Council of Constance

    5 November 1414 CE – 22 April 1418 CE Catholic ecumenical council (1414–1418) held in Constance that ended the Western Schism and condemned Jan Hus
  9. 1517 CE

    Protestant Reformation

    31 October 1517 CE – 1648 CE 16th-century movement in Western Christianity
  10. 1545 CE

    Council of Trent

    13 December 1545 CE – 21 February 1563 CE 19th Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church
  11. 1869 CE

    First Vatican Council

    1869 CE – 20 October 1871 CE Synod of the Catholic church (1869–1870)
  12. 1962 CE

    Second Vatican Council

    11 October 1962 CE – 8 December 1965 CE Roman Catholic council, met 1962 to 1965

Texts and stories · 321

Stories and texts

What was told, and what was written — dated when it was written.

All 7 stories All 319 texts

Festivals and practices · 235

Festivals, holy days and practices

Holy days with the day their record gives, then rites and practices. A festival recurs, so it has no date on the historical clock.

All 235 practices

Holy days and festivals · 87, each with the day its record gives

79 more with a recorded day — the full list.

Rites and practices · 144, with no day on record

138 more — the full list.

Wikidata records festivals, practices and events far more densely for Christianity than for any other tradition: 648 of the 845 held across the collections (77%) are Christian. A thinner section on another collection’s page is a difference in the records, not in the traditions.

Gods · 18

The gods, and the company they keep

The most widely linked across Wikipedia, this collection’s own first. A picture of a god is a work of art, never a likeness.

All 18 gods

More of its best-linked gods

In company

Pantheons, read from the members’ own records — never from a fixed roster.

What this collection holds

Counted, not scored. Each count opens its list.

Every collection

A record can be more than one kind — a monastery is a place and an institution — so these counts add up to more than its 8,680 records. The sections above count the same way, and draw each record once, under the kind its own page is filed under.

Statements
47,069
With references
14,428
Undated
1,757
Accounts
0
Reviewed here
0
What it is missing, and how it was assembled

What this collection is missing

Written by an editor, not computed. A count of records cannot say any of this, and a collection read without it is a collection read wrongly.

  • Wikidata's coverage of Christianity is far denser than of any other tradition here, which distorts every count that compares them.
  • Saints are recorded in bulk and read in detail almost nowhere.
  • Parish churches dominate the place data by volume; the atlas ranks by how widely a site is linked to keep that from swamping it.

Counted across the collections

Wikidata records festivals, practices and events far more densely for Christianity than for any other tradition: 648 of the 845 held across the collections (77%) are Christian. A thinner section on another collection’s page is a difference in the records, not in the traditions.

What the counts mean

Statements
Relationships and facts recorded on these records.
With references
Statements that cite a source outside Wikimedia.
Undated
Records with no date on any of the three clocks.
Accounts
Named versions of a story, kept apart.
Reviewed here
Read by a person and signed with a date.

How it was assembled

Discovered from Wikidata by class and by religion, ranked by incoming links, then filtered against each item’s own claims. Relationships are imported statements unless a row says otherwise; none of them has been read here.

“Reviewed” means a person read it and signed it with a date — which is why it is zero. Nothing here measures how good the material is.

Records here have an article in 16 languages between them. The interface is English only for now. Published 2026-09-25.

How 420 of these records were placed here through another record

Most records are in Christianity by their own statements. These are here because of another record they are linked to — worked out when the data was built, not stated on the record itself. Each one’s own page says the same.

Cities and sites, through the places recorded in them · 9

  • Vatican City — 7 of the 8 places recorded in it here are in this collection
  • Jerusalem — 10 of the 44 places recorded in it here are in this collection
  • Santiago de Compostela — 1 of the 1 places recorded in it here are in this collection
  • Assisi — 8 of the 8 places recorded in it here are in this collection
  • Częstochowa — 2 of the 2 places recorded in it here are in this collection
  • Lourdes — 1 of the 1 places recorded in it here are in this collection

and 3 more

Tombs, through the figures buried in them · 2

Figures and stories, through the text they appear in · 306

  • Adam — it appears in Torah
  • Solomon — it appears in Old Testament
  • David — it appears in Old Testament
  • Eve — it appears in Book of Genesis
  • Noah — it appears in Old Testament
  • Satan — it appears in Bible

and 300 more

Parts, through the whole they belong to · 79

and 73 more

Works, through their main subject · 1

Practices, through the kind they are · 23

and 17 more

Gunnar Bach Pedersen · Public domain

Keep going

Walk Christianity another way.

A family tree as the records give it, every mapped place on the atlas, and the dates on the timeline — each on its own clock.

Martin Luther’s family tree On the atlas The timeline, from Jesus Christ