The short answer
The Living Bread maps 321 Christian churches in Uganda in its open, verifiable directory. This is a growing sample from open data, not a national total, so the real number is far higher.Uganda in context
The churches of Uganda are Roman Catholic 36.2%, Anglican (Church of Uganda) 29.0%, Pentecostal 14.3%.
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The Living Bread. “How Many Churches Are in Uganda?” living-bread.org/how-many-churches-in-uganda.
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Population from Wikidata; Christian share from Uganda Bureau of Statistics census (2024); church directory from OpenStreetMap, (c) OpenStreetMap contributors. A growing directory, not a national census. We never invent totals.
