How Many Churches Are in France?

The short answer

The Living Bread maps 362 Christian churches in France in its open, verifiable directory. This is a growing sample from open data, not a national total, so the real number is far higher.

France in context

68.6 millionpopulation

38.0%Christian (INSEE, 2020)

26.1 millionChristians (approx.)

362churches we map

The churches of France are predominantly Roman Catholic, with Protestant and Orthodox minorities.

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Browse the 362 churches we map, by city, with denomination and location where the open data records it.

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Population from Wikidata; Christian share from INSEE (2020); church directory from OpenStreetMap, (c) OpenStreetMap contributors. A growing directory, not a national census. We never invent totals.