Episcopal Churches in New York: 754 Congregations Mapped by County and City

New York holds 754 Episcopal congregations in the Churches List directory, the largest Episcopal state count and 9.3 percent of the tradition's 8,112 national listings. No tradition-state pair in this series carries more register-listed architecture: 70 of the 754 New York Episcopal congregations occupy buildings on the National Register of Historic Places.

The spread runs to 452 cities and towns. Brooklyn leads with 28 congregations, the boroughs of New York City together hold most of the urban count, and Buffalo adds 19, but the tradition's New York signature is the village parish: a stone Gothic church, often by a named architect, serving a Hudson Valley or North Country town of a few thousand.

Which New York cities have the most Episcopal churches?

The city table shows the borough pattern first: Brooklyn (28), Manhattan listings under New York and New York City labels (34 combined), the Bronx (20), and Buffalo (19). Below them, Flushing (11), Staten Island (10), and Rochester (9) lead a long tail of 440 smaller places. The dispersion is historical: the Episcopal Church planted parishes wherever the 19th-century gentry summered or the railroads ran, which put its buildings in nearly every county seat in the state.

A selection of Episcopal congregations across New York

The table holds 60 of the 754 Episcopal congregations listed in New York, selected for record completeness. The Episcopal tradition page and the New York state page hold the complete lists.

Where Episcopal congregations stand in New York: the map

How Episcopal's New York footprint compares nationally

Nationally the directory lists 8,112 Episcopal congregations, and New York's 754 lead Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the other colonial-era states. 269 of the New York congregations publish websites. The 70 register-listed buildings are the deeper national signature: the tradition's New York architecture, from Upjohn's Gothic Revival churches onward, set the visual standard for what an American church looks like in the public imagination.

How this map was assembled

Counts come from the Churches List directory snapshot of June 11, 2026: 754 congregations in New York carry the Episcopal tradition label, out of 8,112 nationwide and 12,739 New York churches of all traditions. Tradition labels derive from each congregation's source records and self-description; 269 of the New York listings carry a website. The directory does not rank congregations. Corrections are applied through the corrections page.

Related reading in The Letter: New York's 306 register-listed churches includes all 70 Episcopal buildings, and the Episcopal Atlantic corridor places New York inside the tradition's coastal belt. The Episcopal tradition page lists all 8,112 congregations nationwide.