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« on: March 22, 2023, 07:30:27 PM »
« edited: March 22, 2023, 08:14:48 PM by King of Kensington »

Here's the states where they're at least 3% of the population.

Rhode Island  4%
Connecticut  3%
Maine  3%
Maryland  3%
New Hampshire  3%
Virginia  3%

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« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2023, 07:41:50 PM »

Source? Let's hear it for Virginia!!

But these numbers don't surprise me, unfortunately. Nor does the fact that Episcopal churches are concentrated in the East and especially New England.

If there's data for Congregationalists, I'd assume they're almost completely exclusive to New England.
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« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2023, 07:44:16 PM »

The Pew religious landscape study:

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/
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« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2023, 07:47:37 PM »

And yes they are:

Congregationalist

Connecticut  5%
Maine  4%
New Hampshire  4%
Massachusetts  3%
Vermont  3%

Less than 1% everywhere else (including Rhode Island).
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« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2023, 08:05:16 PM »

Source? Let's hear it for Virginia!!

But these numbers don't surprise me, unfortunately. Nor does the fact that Episcopal churches are concentrated in the East and especially New England.

If there's data for Congregationalists, I'd assume they're almost completely exclusive to New England.
Weirdly enough I've twice gone primarily to a church that meets in a Congregationalist church (and two different ones) including my current one. But I've never attended an actual Congregationalist service unless you count our joint Good Friday one a few years ago.

But Amy Klobuchar is a Congregationalist so they're not exactly foreign to Minnesota.
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« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2023, 07:05:06 AM »

Source? Let's hear it for Virginia!!

But these numbers don't surprise me, unfortunately. Nor does the fact that Episcopal churches are concentrated in the East and especially New England.

If there's data for Congregationalists, I'd assume they're almost completely exclusive to New England.

Isn't the UCC Congregationalist? They're all over the country.
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« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2023, 08:56:01 AM »

Sheldon Whitehouse is an Episcopalian, and also perhaps one of the last true “WASPs”, in the narrow sense of that term, to serve at a high level in government.
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« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2023, 09:54:16 AM »

Source? Let's hear it for Virginia!!

But these numbers don't surprise me, unfortunately. Nor does the fact that Episcopal churches are concentrated in the East and especially New England.

If there's data for Congregationalists, I'd assume they're almost completely exclusive to New England.

Isn't the UCC Congregationalist? They're all over the country.

The UCC is the result of mergers between other churches, and is itself a relatively new denomination, founded in 1957. My UCC college chaplain, who is now retired, was a member of one of those churches before the merger. But Congregationalists trace their lineage back to the Puritans, who basically established theocracy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and that is where their oldest churches are. Obviously they haven't retained much of anything from their Puritan roots, except for elements of the Reformed ecclesiastical polity.
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« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2023, 04:49:14 PM »

DC is the most Episcopalian of the metros...ahead of Boston/NYC/Philly.  I guess that makes sense that DC is more Protestant, has virtually no WWC and Episcopalianism attracts both northeastern and southern elites.
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« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2023, 09:14:22 AM »

DC is the most Episcopalian of the metros...ahead of Boston/NYC/Philly.  I guess that makes sense that DC is more Protestant, has virtually no WWC and Episcopalianism attracts both northeastern and southern elites.

The Washington National Cathedral is an Episcopal church, so that's not too surprising. It was the denomination of some of the Founders, who were forced to estalish a new church post-Independence because the Church of England cut ties with us. But that's all history and most mainline churches are in communion with each other now.

I'm definitely not part of the elite. I basically joined because I agree with Catholics on a lot of things but am totally out of line with them on social issues, for the most part.
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« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2023, 06:37:14 PM »

Source? Let's hear it for Virginia!!

But these numbers don't surprise me, unfortunately. Nor does the fact that Episcopal churches are concentrated in the East and especially New England.

If there's data for Congregationalists, I'd assume they're almost completely exclusive to New England.

Isn't the UCC Congregationalist? They're all over the country.

The UCC is the result of mergers between other churches, and is itself a relatively new denomination, founded in 1957. My UCC college chaplain, who is now retired, was a member of one of those churches before the merger. But Congregationalists trace their lineage back to the Puritans, who basically established theocracy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and that is where their oldest churches are. Obviously they haven't retained much of anything from their Puritan roots, except for elements of the Reformed ecclesiastical polity.

There is also a smaller conservative Congregationalist body (similar to say the relationship PCA has to PCUSA) known as the Conservative Christian Congregational Conference that adheres more closely to Puritan roots but whose geographic distribution is similar to the UCC. Interestingly, their headquarters is in Minnesota.
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« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2023, 11:24:39 PM »

Source? Let's hear it for Virginia!!

But these numbers don't surprise me, unfortunately. Nor does the fact that Episcopal churches are concentrated in the East and especially New England.

If there's data for Congregationalists, I'd assume they're almost completely exclusive to New England.

Isn't the UCC Congregationalist? They're all over the country.

The UCC is the result of mergers between other churches, and is itself a relatively new denomination, founded in 1957. My UCC college chaplain, who is now retired, was a member of one of those churches before the merger. But Congregationalists trace their lineage back to the Puritans, who basically established theocracy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and that is where their oldest churches are. Obviously they haven't retained much of anything from their Puritan roots, except for elements of the Reformed ecclesiastical polity.

There is also a smaller conservative Congregationalist body (similar to say the relationship PCA has to PCUSA) known as the Conservative Christian Congregational Conference that adheres more closely to Puritan roots but whose geographic distribution is similar to the UCC. Interestingly, their headquarters is in Minnesota.
I had heard of them but wasn't aware they were headquartered here, huh.
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« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2023, 02:24:42 PM »

It's certainly not surprising that Rhode Island would be the least Congregationalist state in New England, considering its colonial history; it was founded by outcasts form Puritan Massachusetts.
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« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2023, 07:48:35 PM »

Meanwhile, 5% of the Senate is Episcopalian, at least according to Wikipedia
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