List of Christian creeds

Christianity has through Church history produced a number of Christian creeds, confessions and statements of faith. The following lists are provided.

In many cases, individual churches will address further doctrinal questions in a set of bylaws. Smaller churches see this as a formality, while churches of a larger size build this to be a large document describing the practical functioning of the church.

Biblical creeds

 * Jesus is Lord (Romans 10:9; 1 Corinthians 12:3)
 * Pre-New Testament Creeds in the New Testament (1 Timothy 2:5, Phil 2:6-11, 1 Timothy 3:16)
 * Christ died, was raised, then list of eyewitnesses to the resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:3-10)

Creeds of the early church

 * The Didache (50–100)
 * The Creed of Aristides of Athens (130)
 * The Old Roman Symbol or Old Roman Creed (c. 215)
 * The Creed of Cyprian of Carthage (250)
 * The Deir Balyzeh Papyrus (200–350)
 * The Arian Creeds and Creeds of Euzoius (320/327)
 * The Creed of Alexander of Alexandria (321–324)
 * The First Synod of Antioch (325)
 * The Second Dedication of Antioch (341)
 * The Baptismal Creed of Jerusalem (350)
 * The Apostolic Constitutions (350–380)

Interdenominational creeds

 * Barmen Declaration of Faith, Confessing Church (1934)
 * World Evangelical Alliance Statement of Faith (1951)
 * National Association of Evangelicals Statement of Faith (1943)
 * Anglican-Lutheran Pullach Report (1972)
 * Brief Statement of Faith (1983)
 * Common Christological Declarations Between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East (1994)

Ecumenical creeds

 * The Call to Unity, Lausanne (1927)
 * The Scheme of Union of the Church of South India (1929/1942)
 * The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, Edinburgh (1937)
 * Affirmation of Union, Edinburgh (1937)
 * The Constitution of the Church in South India (1947)
 * Message of the First Assembly of the World Council of Churches (1948)
 * The Unity We Have and Seek (1952)
 * A Message from the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches (1954)
 * The Unity of the Church, St. Andrews (1960)
 * The Church's Unity, World Council of Churches, New Delhi (1961)
 * The Holy Spirit and the Catholicity of the Church, Uppsala (1968)
 * What Unity Requires, Nairobi (1975)
 * Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry, Lima (1982)
 * Uniatism, Method of Union of the Past, and the Present Search for Full Communion (1993)
 * The Covenant (2015)

Adventist

 * Pillars of Adventism (1848)
 * Adventist Baptismal Vow (1941)
 * 28 Fundamental Beliefs (Adventist) (1980)

Anabaptist/Mennonite

 * Hans Denck's confession Before the Council of Nuremberg (1525)
 * The Schleitheim Confession (1527)
 * The Mennonite Concept of Cologne (1591)
 * The Dordrecht Confession (1632)

Anglican

 * The Anglican Catechism (1549/1662)
 * Thirty-Nine Articles (1563)
 * Lambeth Articles (1595)
 * Affirmation of St. Louis (1977)

Arminian

 * Five Articles of Remonstrance (1610)
 * The Opinions of the Remonstrants (1618)
 * Remonstrant Confession (1621)

Assemblies of God

 * Assemblies of God Statement of Fundamental Truths
 * Assembleia de deus Declaration of faith - Brazil

Baptist

 * Thomas Helwys Confession of Faith (1611)
 * Baptist Confession of Faith (1644)
 * Baptist Confession of Faith (1677/1689)
 * The Orthodox Creed of the General Baptists (1678)
 * The Philadelphia Confession (1688)
 * New Hampshire Confession of Faith (1833)
 * The Free-will Baptist Confession (1868)
 * Abstract Principles for Southern Baptist Seminary (1858)
 * The Doctrinal Basis of the New Zealand Baptist Union (1882)
 * Doctrinal Basis of the Baptist Union of Victoria, Australia (1888)
 * The Statement of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland (1888)
 * The Statement of Faith of the American Baptist Association (1905)
 * Johann Kargel's Confession (1913)
 * Baptist Faith and Message, Southern Baptist Convention (1925)
 * The Doctrinal Statement of the North American Baptist Association (1950)
 * Baptist Faith and Message, Southern Baptist Convention (1964)
 * Baptist Affirmation of Faith, Strict Baptist Assembly (1966)
 * Romanian Baptist Confession (1974)
 * The Statement of Beliefs of the North American Baptist Conference (1982)
 * Baptist Faith and Message, Southern Baptist Convention (2000)

Catholic

 * The Edict of Michael Cerularius and of the Synod of Constantinople of 1054 (1054)
 * The Dictatus Papae of Pope Gregory VII (1075)
 * Council of Florence
 * Confutatio Augustana (1530)
 * Tridentine Creed - Profession of Faith of Pius IV (1564)
 * Anti-Modernist Oath - Pius X
 * Maasai Creed, Holy Ghost Fathers (1960)
 * Vatican II Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (1964)
 * Credo of the People of God Profession of Faith of Paul VI (1968)
 * Common Declaration of Pope John Paul II and [Armenian] Catholicos Karekin I (1996)
 * Ad Tuendam Fidem of Pope John Paul II (1998)

Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

 * Mission, Vision and Confession
 * Christian Church: The Design for the Christian Church (1968)

Congregational

 * The Cambridge Platform (1648)
 * Savoy Declaration (1658)
 * The Declaration of the Congregational Union of England (1833)
 * The Declaration of the Boston National Council (1865)
 * The Declaration of the Oberlin National Council (1871)
 * The "Commission" Creed of the Congregational Church (1883/1913)

Eastern Orthodox

 * Doctrine of the African Orthodox Church (1921)

Huguenot

 * Guanabara Confession of Faith

Lutheran

 * Augsburg Confession (1520)
 * Augsburg Confession (1530)
 * Apology of the Augsburg Confession (1530 Lutheran Response to Confutatio Augustana)
 * Smalcald Articles (1537)
 * Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope (1537)
 * Formula of Concord (1577)
 * Book of Concord (1580)
 * Saxon Visitation Articles (1592)
 * The Reaffirmed Consensus of the True Lutheran Faith (1655)

Methodist

 * Minutes of Some Late Conversations (1744)
 * The Scripture Way of Salvation (1765)
 * Articles of Religion (1784)
 * Confession of Faith, United Methodist Church (1968)
 * Soldier's Covenant of the Salvation Army, a church created by former Methodists
 * The 1823 Calvinistic Methodist Confession of Faith.

Moravian

 * The three Ecumenical Creeds: Apostles', Nicene and Athanasian
 * The Augsburg Confession
 * The Confession of the Unity of the Bohemian Brethren of 1535
 * The Barmen Declaration of 1934
 * The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England

Pentecostal

 * Assemblies of God Statement of Fundamental Truths (1916)
 * Indian Pentecostal Church of God: Statement of Faith

Presbyterian

 * Scots Confession (1560)
 * Westminster Confession of Faith (1646)
 * The Confession of the Waldenses (1655)
 * The Confession of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (1814/1883)
 * The Confession of the Free Evangelical Church of Geneva (1848)
 * The Confession of the Free Italian Church (1870)
 * The Auburn Declaration (1837)
 * Auburn Affirmation (PCUSA) (1924)
 * Book of Confessions (PCUSA)[part 1; Second Edition 1970]
 * The Creed of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Chile (1983)
 * Living Faith: A statement of Christian Belief, Presbyterian Church in Canada (1984)

Puritan/Congregational

 * Cambridge Platform (1648)

Quaker

 * The Confession of the Society of Friends (1675)
 * Richmond Declaration (1887)

Reformed

 * The Sixty-seven Articles of Ulrigh Zwingli (1523)
 * The Evangelical Counsel of Ansbach (1524)
 * Ten Conclusions of Berne (1528)
 * First Helvetic Confession (1536)
 * The Consensus of Geneva (1552)
 * First Scotch Confession (1560)
 * Craig's Catechism (1581)
 * Second Helvetic Confession (1586)
 * Gallican Confession (1559)
 * Belgic Confession (1561)
 * Heidelberg Catechism (1563)
 * The Hungarian Confession (1570)
 * Second Scotch Confession (1580)
 * Irish Articles of Religion (1615)
 * Canons of Dordt (1618–19)
 * Westminster Confession of Faith 1646
 * Savoy Declaration 1658
 * Helvetic Consensus (1675)
 * Second London Confession of Faith (1677/1689)
 * Walcheren Articles (1693)
 * The Calvinistic Methodist Confession of Faith. (1823)
 * Belhar Confession, Dutch Reformed Mission Church (1986)
 * Cambridge Declaration (1996)

Salvation Army

 * Articles of War of The Salvation Army

United Church of Canada

 * A New Creed (1968)

United Church of Christ

 * Statement of Faith of the United Church of Christ (1959/1977)

Waldensian

 * Waldensian Confession (1655)

Neo-Evangelical

 * Doctrinal Statement of the Evangelical Theological Society (1949, 1990)
 * Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy (1978)
 * Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics (1982)
 * Danvers Statement (1988)