Churches List A Directory of American Churches
State statistics · updated June 2026

How many churches are in Mississippi?

Mississippi has 7,008 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 387 cities and towns. 143 listings are verified, 6,826 include a phone number, and 1,153 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 7,174 congregations of 106 religious bodies in Mississippi, with 1,759,327 reported adherents across 82 counties. 32 Mississippi church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 5 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.

7,008
Directory listings
7,174
2020 Census congregations
1,759,327
2020 Census adherents
32
NRHP churches
MS capital N
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Largest religious bodies in Mississippi (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents
Southern Baptist Convention 2,147 830,229
Non-denominational Christian Churches 566 187,963
United Methodist Church 989 164,073
National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. 481 116,520
Catholic Church 145 99,663
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. 108 54,308
Churches of Christ 359 38,913
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church 186 23,646
Assemblies of God 147 22,670
Church of God in Christ 112 22,268
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 50 21,649
Jehovah's Witnesses 102 20,760
African Methodist Episcopal Church 122 20,167
Presbyterian Church in America 116 17,821
Episcopal Church 83 17,618
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Largest traditions in the Mississippi directory

Tradition Listings
Baptist Churches 3,145
Methodist 849
Non-Denominational 551
United Methodist 318
Church of Christ 299
Church of God 247
Catholic 216
Presbyterian 164
Pentecostal 153
Assemblies of God 148
Episcopal 93
Church of God in Christ 90
Apostolic 89
Christian 82
Seventh Day Adventist 78
Where the churches are

Mississippi cities with the most listings

Mississippi counties

Sources and method

Directory figures are live counts from the Churches List database for Mississippi (MS) 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 Mississippi directory, and dataset licensing.