See main article: List of Christian denominations in India.
Church Name | Population | Orientation |
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Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church | 2,500,000[34] | Oriental Orthodox, West Syriac Rite |
Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church | 1,200,000[34] | Oriental Orthodox, West Syriac Rite |
Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church | 1,100,000[149] | Independent and Reformed Eastern Christian, Reformed West Syriac Rite |
Roman Catholic Church (Latin Catholic Church) | 11,800,000 | Catholic, Latin Rite |
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church | 4,000,000[160] | Catholic, East Syriac Rite |
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church | 410,000[161] | Catholic, West Syriac Rite |
Malabar Independent Syrian Church | 20,000 | Independent, West Syriac Rite (follows Oriental Orthodox faith) |
Chaldean Syrian Church | 35,000 | Church of the East, East Syriac |
The Holy Trinity Church, Newfrontiers | 10,000 | Born again |
3,500,000 | Episcopalian Protestant | |
St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India | 35,000 | Episcopalian Protestant |
Church of South India | 4, 000,000 | Episcopal Protestant (United and uniting) |
Church of North India | 1,250,000 | Episcopal Protestant (United and uniting) |
Methodist Church in India | 648,000 | Protestant |
India Pentecostal Church of God | 2,600,000 | Protestant Evangelical Pentecostal |
Assemblies of God in India | 5,000,000 | Protestant Evangelical Pentecostal (Assemblies of God in India) |
The Pentecostal Mission | 700,000 | Protestant |
Baptist | 2,991,276[162] | Protestant (List of Baptist denominations in India) |
Assemblies Jehovah Shammah | 310,000[155] | Protestant (Plymouth Brethren) |
Lutheran | 4,220,178[151][163] | Protestant List of Lutheran Denominations Worldwide |
Indian Brethren | 449,550[155] to 1,000,000 | Protestant (Plymouth Brethren) |
Presbyterian Church of India | 1,452,780[164][165] | Protestant (Reformed) |
Reformed Presbyterian Church North East India | 15,000 | Protestant (Reformed) |
Reformed Presbyterian Church of India | 10,000 | Protestant (Reformed) |
Evangelical Church of Maraland | 30,000 | Protestant (Reformed) |
Congregational Church in India | 5,500 | Protestant (Reformed) |
Council of Reformed Churches of India | 200,000 | Protestant (Reformed) |
Hindustani Covenant Church | 16,600 | Protestant |
Worldwide Faith Missions | 12,000[citation needed] | Protestant |
Evangelical Church | 250,000 | Protestant |
New Apostolic Church[158] | 1,448,209 | Protestant |
Pentecostal Maranatha Gospel Church | 12,000 | Protestant |
New Life Fellowship Association[158] | 480,000 | Protestant |
Sharon Fellowship Church[158] | 50,000 | Protestant |
Manna Full Gospel Churches[158] | 275,000 | Protestant |
Philadelphia Fellowship Church of India[158] | 200,000 | Protestant |
Seventh-day Adventist Church | 1,560,000[166] | Protestant/Restorationism |
Unitarian Union of Northeast India | 10,000 | Unitarian |
Jehovah’s Witnesses | 42,566[167] | Restorationism |
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 13,141[168] | Latter Day Saints |
Gift of God Ministries | 1,000 | Born Again Believers |
Christian Revival Church | 21,447[169] | Charismatic, Pentecostal and Holistic Evangelical Movement |
Mennonite Brethren Church | 103,000[170] | Protestant (Reformed) |
Community of Christ | 15,000+ | Latter Day Saints |
State populations[edit]
State/ UT | Population | Christian (%) | Christian Population |
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India | 1,210,854,977 | 2.30 | 27,819,588 |
Kerala | 33,406,061 | 18.38 | 6,141,269 |
Tamil Nadu | 72,147,030 | 6.12 | 4,418,331 |
Meghalaya | 2,966,889 | 74.59 | 2,213,027 |
Nagaland | 1,978,502 | 87.93 | 1,739,651 |
Jharkhand | 32,988,134 | 4.30 | 1,418,608 |
Manipur | 2,855,794 | 41.29 | 1,179,043 |
Assam | 31,205,576 | 3.74 | 1,165,867 |
Odisha | 41,974,218 | 2.77 | 1,161,708 |
Karnataka | 61,095,297 | 1.87 | 1,142,647 |
Andhra Pradesh | 84,580,777 | 1.34 | 1,129,784 |
Maharashtra | 112,374,333 | 0.96 | 1,080,073 |
Mizoram | 1,097,206 | 87.16 | 956,331 |
West Bengal | 91,276,115 | 0.72 | 658,618 |
Chhattisgarh | 25,545,198 | 1.92 | 490,542 |
Arunachal Pradesh | 1,383,727 | 30.26 | 418,732 |
Goa | 1,458,545 | 25.10 | 366,130 |
Uttar Pradesh | 199,812,341 | 0.18 | 356,448 |
Punjab | 27,743,338 | 1.26 | 348,230 |
Gujarat | 60,439,692 | 0.52 | 316,178 |
Madhya Pradesh | 72,626,809 | 0.29 | 213,282 |
Tripura | 3,673,917 | 4.35 | 159,882 |
Delhi | 16,787,941 | 0.87 | 146,093 |
Bihar | 104,099,452 | 0.12 | 129,247 |
Rajasthan | 68,548,437 | 0.14 | 96,430 |
Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 380,581 | 21.28 | 80,984 |
Puducherry | 1,247,953 | 6.29 | 78,550 |
Sikkim | 610,577 | 9.91 | 60,522 |
Haryana | 25,351,462 | 0.20 | 50,353 |
Uttarakhand | 10,086,292 | 0.37 | 37,781 |
Jammu and Kashmir | 12,541,302 | 0.28 | 35,631 |
Himachal Pradesh | 6,864,602 | 0.18 | 12,646 |
Chandigarh | 1,055,450 | 0.83 | 8,720 |
Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 343,709 | 1.49 | 5,113 |
Daman and Diu | 243,247 | 1.16 | 2,820 |
Lakshadweep | 64,473 | 0.49 | 317 |
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