California has 21,472 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 979 cities and towns. 503 listings are verified, 20,940 include a phone number, and 7,946 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 23,538 congregations of 218 religious bodies in California, with 17,713,373 reported adherents across 57 counties. 62 California church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 56 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents |
|---|---|---|
| Catholic Church | 1,290 | 10,361,743 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 2,230 | 1,644,918 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 1,217 | 743,443 |
| Muslim Estimate | 308 | 504,056 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 1,949 | 498,028 |
| Southern Baptist Convention | 2,323 | 497,030 |
| Assemblies of God | 1,378 | 378,673 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church | 631 | 221,356 |
| Mahayana Buddhist | 269 | 175,612 |
| Church of God in Christ | 360 | 160,998 |
| United Methodist Church | 617 | 154,557 |
| Foursquare Gospel, International Church of the | 484 | 149,758 |
| National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. | 421 | 145,918 |
| Hindu Yoga and Meditation | 279 | 121,374 |
| Hindu Temples | 50 | 117,328 |
| Tradition | Listings |
|---|---|
| Non-Denominational | 3,278 |
| Baptist Churches | 2,806 |
| Catholic | 1,658 |
| Lutheran | 954 |
| Community | 877 |
| Foursquare | 814 |
| Church of Christ | 692 |
| Seventh Day Adventist | 669 |
| Presbyterian | 668 |
| Church of God | 654 |
| Christian | 636 |
| African Methodist Episcopal | 602 |
| Episcopal | 501 |
| Methodist | 467 |
| United Methodist | 462 |
Directory figures are live counts from the Churches List database for California (CA) as of June 2026. Congregations and adherents come from the 2020 US Religion Census, a county-level enumeration reported by religious bodies and aggregated here to the state; its methodology differs from a directory count and the two will not match. Historic-register counts join National Register of Historic Places listings to directory churches. Statistics for other states: Texas · Pennsylvania · North Carolina · Ohio · Florida · Illinois · Georgia · New York · Michigan · Tennessee. See also the national statistics page, the California directory, and dataset licensing.