Repectfully, Elder Tammeus, I think you buy into the trope of SOME traditionalist RC when you claim "thousands of 'denominations' ". If I'm Pastor in LA or the Bronx or Chicago, running a group of store-front Pentecostal "Free Bible Church of God" type places, or "Worship Leader" Billy Bob Wrangler in my pressed chinos of a mega-church with theater seats and a "rockin" worship band,  am I really a denomination? Do I have a distinctive theology, well developed, and organized or a confessional statement? Did I go to a church affiliated or accredited seminary? Is there a larger church organization I call home like the World Council of Churches or a smaller national group? For many of these the answer is no. The same phenomenon in greater degree exists across a wide swath of village Africa.

Several respected encyclopedias of world religion list the known church groupings, and their affiliations, and unions/covenants.  Let's not exaggerate, as the ideologues sadly do.