Kentucky has 6,768 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 562 cities and towns. 191 listings are verified, 6,432 include a phone number, and 1,981 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 8,141 congregations of 167 religious bodies in Kentucky, with 2,225,786 reported adherents across 120 counties. 91 Kentucky church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 34 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents |
|---|---|---|
| Southern Baptist Convention | 2,530 | 904,352 |
| Catholic Church | 300 | 354,064 |
| United Methodist Church | 838 | 176,747 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 575 | 149,762 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ | 338 | 128,612 |
| Churches of Christ | 568 | 51,719 |
| National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. | 168 | 38,306 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 79 | 35,460 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) | 230 | 31,929 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) | 206 | 29,511 |
| Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. | 17 | 27,900 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 117 | 25,982 |
| Assemblies of God | 165 | 19,907 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) | 123 | 19,078 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) | 157 | 18,917 |
| Tradition | Listings |
|---|---|
| Baptist Churches | 2,230 |
| Methodist | 775 |
| Non-Denominational | 532 |
| Christian | 405 |
| Church of Christ | 371 |
| Catholic | 356 |
| Church of God | 322 |
| United Methodist | 266 |
| Presbyterian | 163 |
| Church of the Nazarene | 153 |
| Pentecostal | 138 |
| Assemblies of God | 126 |
| Evangelical | 93 |
| Episcopal | 87 |
| Lutheran | 77 |
Directory figures are live counts from the Churches List database for Kentucky (KY) 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 · California · Pennsylvania · North Carolina · Ohio · Florida · Illinois · Georgia · New York · Michigan. See also the national statistics page, the Kentucky directory, and dataset licensing.