List of wealthiest religious organizations
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is a list of the world's wealthiest religious organizations.
List
| Organization | Worth (billion USD) |
Country | Religion/belief | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 293 |  United States |
Mormonism | Includes everything from investments, operating assets (ecclesiastical buildings) and real estate, mostly from USA.[1] |
| Setad (Execution of Imam Khomeini's Order) | 95 to 135 |  Iran |
Shiite Islam | [2][3][4][5] |
| Catholic Church in Germany | 47.24 to 265.62 |  Germany |
Catholicism | Some sources suggest a value as high as $265.62 billion, while others put it closer to $47.24 billion due to limited public data on the Church's finances. Former totals the value of land, real estate, investments and holdings of the Catholic Church and its institutions.[6][7] |
| Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) | 31.11 |  India |
Hinduism | Holdings reportedly include 10.25 tonnes of gold deposits in banks, 2.5 tonnes of gold jewelry, $1.9 billion in various banks and 960 properties across India.[8] |
| Muhammadiyah | 26.25 |  Indonesia |
Sunni Islam | Roughly converted from 400 trillion rupiah as of 2023; mostly in the form of land and buildings (hospitals, mosques, schools, & universities).[9] |
| Catholic Church in Australia | 23.25 |  Australia |
Catholicism | Extrapolated figure from calculating assets and investments in the state of Victoria.[10] |
| Catholic Church in France | 23.0 |  France |
Catholicism | |
| Plymouth Brethren Christian Church | 22 to 79 | United States |
Evangelical Christianity | [11][12][13] |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church | 15.6 | United States |
Adventism | As of 1998.[14] |
| Church of England | 13.84 |  United Kingdom |
Anglican | Endowment funds.[15] |
| Church of Sweden | 11.41 |  Sweden |
Lutheran | FY2012. Largely of assets that are in forests, buildings and securities. Another 3.07 billion as annual income.[16] |
| Trinity Church | 6.0 | United States |
Anglican | [17][18][19] |
| Tzu Chi Foundation | 4.3 |  Taiwan |
Buddhism | [20] |
| Opus Dei (part of the Catholic Church) | 3.0 |  Italy |
Catholicism | [21] |
| Church of Scientology | 2.0 | United States |
Scientology | [22][23] |
| Holy See (Vatican) | Incalculable[24] |  Vatican City |
Catholicism | Not available due to widespread properties globally.[25][26][27] |
See also
Individuals
Businesses
- List of largest church buildings
- List of largest companies by revenue
- List of largest employers
- List of largest corporate profits and losses
- List of public corporations by market capitalization
- List of most indebted companies
- List of largest manufacturing companies by revenue
- List of largest financial services companies by revenue
- List of largest companies in Europe by revenue