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 2004
  Unregistered religious communities
  Total Free Evangelical
Congregations
Islamic
communities
Pentecostal
congrations
Other unregistered
religious communities
Human Ethical
Union
The whole country            
Congregations  214 30 10 23 32  119
Members 97 247 4 032 2 981 1 319 19 305 69 610
Østfold         -  
Congregations 10 4 - - 1 5
Members 3 376  442 - - 5 2 929
Oslo og Akershus         -  
Congregations 28 1 1 1 10 15
Members 43 228 71  305 45 17 469 25 338
Hedmark            
Congregations 11 - 1 4 - 6
Members 2 685 -  112  182 - 2 391
Oppland            
Congregations 15 1 3 4 - 7
Members 2 859 77  477  204 - 2 101
Buskerud            
Congregations 12 2 - 1 2 7
Members 3 943  305 - 80  122 3 436
Vestfold            
Congregations 8 1 - - 2 5
Members 3 808  126 - - 37 3 645
Telemark            
Congregations 8 - - 1 1 6
Members 2 350 - - 42 19 2 289
Aust-Agder            
Congregations 8 2 - - 1 5
Members 1 589  383 - - 22 1 184
Vest-Agder            
Congregations 16 9 - 3 - 4
Members 3 184 1 153 -  348 - 1 683
Rogaland            
Congregations 20 7 - 1 5 7
Members 6 412 1 064 - 15  723 4 610
Hordaland            
Congregations 14 2 - 1 2 9
Members 5 906  332 - 77  129 5 368
Sogn og Fjordane            
Congregations 6 - - 2 - 4
Members  859 - -  106 -  753
Møre og Romsdal            
Congregations 11 1 1 - 2 7
Members 2 462 79  188 -  103 2 092
Sør-Trøndelag            
Congregations 12 - 1 - 4 7
Members 6 111 - 1 119 -  311 4 681
Nord-Trøndelag            
Congregations 7 - 1 - - 6
Members 1 901 -  297 - - 1 604
Nordland            
Congregations 13 - 1 4 1 7
Members 3 633 -  437  196  349 2 651
Troms            
Congregations 8 - 1 - 1 6
Members 2 166 - 46 - 16 2 104
Finnmark            
Congregations 7 - - 1 - 6
Members  775 - - 24 -  751
1  Including only members for whom government subsidy is received.
2  Includes registered and unregistered religious communities/congregations having central government subsidies for 2004 pursuant to the religious community Act of 13 June 1969.
3  Philosophical communities having central government subsidies for 2004, 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: Statistics Norway.

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