Statistics Norway

Church of Norway and other religious and life stance communities

3 Members1 of Christian communities outside the Church of Norway. Per 1 January. 2005-2009
  2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Christian communities  215 090  216 141  225 507  226 969  234 772
Adventists 5 567 5 258 5 281 5 177 5 086
Free Evangelical Congregations 3 653 3 514 3 628 3 455 3 434
The Evangelical Lutheran Free Church of Norway 21 140 19 308 19 524 19 496 19 262
The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Congregation 23 504 3 738 4 291 4 288 4 237
The Icelandic Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in Norway 23 395 2 999 2 027 - 2 735
The Christian Church 6 054 6 280 6 476 6 602 6 779
The Orthodox Church 5 028 5 494 6 075 6 771 7 664
The Roman Catholic Church 43 118 46 440 51 508 54 011 57 348
The Evangelical Lutheran Church Community 3 410 3 347 3 345 3 275 3 232
The Norwegian Baptist Union 9 549 8 745 9 071 9 492 9 382
Church of Norway Mission Covenant 8 505 8 154 8 399 8 476 8 497
Jehovah's Witness 14 502 14 568 14 756 14 856 14 976
The Christian Community 2 472 2 461 2 505 2 463 2 474
Christian Centres 3 264 2 975 3 353 3 324 3 290
The Methodist Church of Norway 11 981 11 324 11 299 11 133 10 974
Pentecostal congregations 42 744 39 492 40 398 39 866 39 590
The Swedish Margareta Congregation in Oslo 27 267 12 166 13 098 14 087 15 574
Other Christian communities 19 937 19 878 20 473 20 197 20 238
1  Including only members for whom government subsidy is received.
2  Estimated by the old method.
Source: Statistics Norway.

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