The most Episcopalian state is...Rhode Island?

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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.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

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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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.