The Apostolic Christian Church consists of several sub-denomination, the two largest being the "Apostolic Christian Church of America" with about 90 congregations and 12,000 members in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Japan; and the "Apostolic Christian Church (Nazarean)" with about 50 congregations and 5,000 members in the United States and South America. The Apostolic Christian church was founded in the 1830's by Samuel Froehlich in Switzerland, and its biblical understandings were shaped in a large part by other Anabaptist groups.