Should Pentecostals be considered their own branch of Christianity?

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

They usually are.
Catholic
Orthodox
Protestant
Restorationist (the denominations less than 300 years old, that tend to reject long-held teachings: Mormonism, Pentacostalism, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.)

Orthodox is way too broad.

It is? It's a defined set of churches with shared government structures and a clear theological identity. At least, assuming what's being referred to is Eastern Orthodox rather than small-o orthodox.

[RI]

They usually are.
Catholic
Orthodox
Protestant
Restorationist (the denominations less than 300 years old, that tend to reject long-held teachings: Mormonism, Pentacostalism, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.)

Orthodox is way too broad.

It is? It's a defined set of churches with shared government structures and a clear theological identity. At least, assuming what's being referred to is Eastern Orthodox rather than small-o orthodox.

Maybe because of Oriental Orthodox and the Church of the East? Even so, that doesn't seem broader than "Protestantism" etc.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Orthodox is really not a broad term at all. When capitalised its usage is specific and immediately understood by anyone with even a passing knowledge of Christianity.

[Vosem]

"Orthodox" has a clear meaning but should nevertheless be split into two fundamentally separate groups (the Eastern Orthodox Church itself, and then the various much older "Oriental Orthodox" groups who rejected the Council of Chalcedon); the still-extant descendants of the old Nestorian Church of the East can be effectively said to be a third, fundamentally different group (who were cast out of the rest of Christianity as heretics in the Council of Ephesus in...431).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Well if you're going to get pedantic about everything they don't like to be called Nestorians.

[DC Al Fine]

They usually are.
Catholic
Orthodox
Protestant
Restorationist (the denominations less than 300 years old, that tend to reject long-held teachings: Mormonism, Pentacostalism, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.)

Orthodox is way too broad.

It is? It's a defined set of churches with shared government structures and a clear theological identity. At least, assuming what's being referred to is Eastern Orthodox rather than small-o orthodox.

Yeah, not quite sure of the reasoning here. If any group is too broad, its Protestantism, i.e. why I started the thread.