Statistics Norway

Church of Norway and other religious and philosophical communities

4   Congregations and members1 of religious2 and philosophical3 communities outside the Church of Norway, by county. 1 January 2003
  Unregistered religious communities
  Total Free Evangelical Congregations Islamic communities Pentecostal congrations Other unregistered religious communities Human Ethical Union
The whole country            
Congregations  228 35 8 21 45  119
Members  101 747 3 987 2 370 1 320 24 418 69 652
Østfold            
Congregations 11 4 - - 2 5
Members 3 819  456 - -  470 2 893
Oslo og Akershus            
Congregations 29 1 1 1 10 16
Members 43 256 71  305 45 17 454 25 381
Hedmark            
Congregations 12 - 1 3 2 6
Members 2 934 -  131  129  229 2 445
Oppland            
Congregations 15 1 2 4 1 7
Members 2 881 74  320  212  146 2 129
Buskerud            
Congregations 13 2 - 1 3 7
Members 4 802  305 - 78  983 3 436
Vestfold            
Congregations 8 1 - - 2 5
Members 4 893  129 - - 1 143 3 621
Telemark            
Congregations 9 - - 1 2 6
Members 3 183 - - 42  808 2 333
Aust-Agder            
Congregations 8 2 - - 2 4
Members 1 693  387 - -  124 1 182
Vest-Agder            
Congregations 17 8 1 3 1 4
Members 3 231 1 080 44  355  130 1 622
Rogaland            
Congregations 25 13 - - 5 7
Members 6 795 1 077 - - 1 137 4 581
Hordaland            
Congregations 16 2 - 2 3 9
Members 6 555  326 -  195  697 5 337
Sogn og Fjordane            
Congregations 7 - - 2 1 4
Members  946 - -  101 78  767
Møre og Romsdal            
Congregations 11 1 1 - 2 7
Members 2 463 82  100 -  174 2 107
Sør-Trøndelag            
Congregations 13 - 1 - 5 7
Members 6 205 - 1 142 -  366 4 697
Nord-Trøndelag            
Congregations 7 - 1 -   6
Members 1 920 -  328 -   1 592
Nordland            
Congregations 11 - - 3 1 7
Members 3 109 - -  137  348 2 624
Troms            
Congregations 8 - - - 2 6
Members 2 230 - - - 96 2 134
Finnmark            
Congregations 8 - - 1 1 6
Members  832 - - 26 35  771
1  Including only members for whom government subsidy is received.
2  Includes registered and unregistered religious communities/congregations having central government subsidies for 2003 pursuant to the religious community Act of 13 June 1969.
3  Philosophical communities having central government subsidies for 2003, pursuant to the Act of 12 June 1981 about subsidies to philosophical communities. With effect from 1985, children under the age of 15 are included.
Source: Source: Statistics Norway.

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