Les plus grandes confessions chrétiennes aux États-Unis, classées par nombre de membres



  • The Catholic Church is the largest Christian body in the United States. The 2020 U.S. Religion Census counted 61.9 million adherents, its own 2025 directory counts 66.3 million parish-connected Catholics, and in Pew’s 2023–24 survey 19% of adults were Catholic.
  • Taken together, nondenominational churches rank second, with 21.1 million adherents in 2020, and the largest Protestant denomination is the Southern Baptist Convention, with 12,331,954 members in 2025.
  • Selon l'étude sur le paysage religieux 2023-2024 du Pew Research Center, 40% des adultes américains sont protestants, 62% sont chrétiens et 29% n'ont aucune religion.
  • Entre 2010 et 2020, les églises non confessionnelles ont gagné près de neuf millions d'adhérents, tandis que la Southern Baptist Convention et l'Église méthodiste unie ont chacune perdu environ deux millions de membres.
  • About a quarter of United Methodist congregations in the U.S. left the denomination in disaffiliations that ended in 2023, and by 2024 the church had slightly fewer than 4 million U.S. members.
  • Parmi les jeunes adultes, 46% s'identifient comme chrétiens, contre 80% des adultes âgés de 74 ans et plus.

The Catholic Church is the largest Christian denomination in the United States. The 2020 U.S. Religion Census counted 61.9 million Catholic adherents, and when Pew Research Center surveyed Americans in 2023–24, 19% of adults said they were Catholic. Second come the independent nondenominational churches, taken together as a group, and the largest Protestant denomination is the Southern Baptist Convention. Every one of these numbers stands for people gathered to worship, in more than 345,000 Christian congregations by the census count.…

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