New Zealand Gazette – 1907 – No. 2

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✨ Religious Census Statistics



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 2

Census, 1906.—Religions of the People.

Registrar-General’s Office, Wellington, 7th January, 1907.

THE accompanying tables (Nos. I and II), showing the summarised results of the census taken in April last as to religious denominations, are published for general information.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

NUMBERS FOR EACH DENOMINATION, AND INCREASE OR DECREASE.

TABLE I.—Showing (exclusive of Maoris) the Number of Persons, Males and Females, belonging to the different Religious Denominations in New Zealand, according to the Census of April, 1906, compared with the Results of the Census of 1901.

Religious Denominations. Census, 1906. Census, 1901. Increase or Decrease.
Persons. Males. Females. Persons. Numerical. Centesimal.
Total population .. .. 888,578 471,008 417,570 772,719 115,859 15.26
Total for specified religions .. 886,694 469,761 416,933 771,837 114,857 14.89
Episcopalians—
Church of England, and Episcopalians not otherwise defined .. .. 366,828 194,628 172,200 314,024 52,804 16.81
Protestants (undescribed) .. .. 1,237 736 501 1,239 — 2 — 0.16
Presbyterians.. .. .. 203,597 106,872 96,725 176,503 27,094 15.35
Methodists—
Methodist Church of Australasia .. 63,603 31,554 32,049 * .. ..
Primitive Methodists .. .. 21,796 10,915 10,881 10,143 11,653 114.89
Methodists (undefined) .. .. 3,505 1,774 1,731 2,396 1,109 46.29
Others .. .. .. 134 61 73 229 — 95 — 41.48
Baptists .. .. .. 17,747 8,537 9,210 16,035 1,712 10.68
Congregationalists .. .. 7,360 3,532 3,828 6,699 661 9.87
Lutherans, German Protestants .. 4,856 3,080 1,776 4,833 23 0.48
Unitarians .. .. .. 789 447 342 468 321 68.59
Society of Friends .. .. 334 211 123 313 21 6.71
Church of Christ (Christian, Christian Disciples, Disciples of Christ, Disciples) 7,061 3,304 3,757 6,105 956 15.66
Brethren (Christian Brethren, Exclusive Brethren, Open Brethren, Plymouth Brethren) .. .. .. 7,901 3,628 4,273 7,484 417 5.57
Believers in Christ .. .. 52 25 27 31 21 67.74
Evangelists (Evangelical Union, Evangelical Church, Evangelical Christians, Evangelical Brethren) .. .. 42 29 13 21 21 100.00
Nonconformists .. .. 67 45 22 61 6 9.84
Salvation Army .. .. 8,389 4,024 4,365 7,999 390 4.88
Christadelphians .. .. 1,059 513 546 989 70 7.08
Swedenborgians (New Church, New Jerusalem Church) .. .. 186 94 92 159 27 16.98
Seventh-day Adventists .. .. 990 399 591 864 126 14.58
Students of Truth .. .. 18 7 11 33 — 15 — 45.45
Dissenters .. .. .. 6 2 4 3 3 100.00
Christian Israelites, Israelites .. 24 18 6 34 — 10 — 29.41
Other Christians .. .. 1,125 597 528 1,093 32 2.93
Roman Catholics .. .. 126,109 66,705 59,404 108,960 17,149 15.74
Catholics (undefined) .. .. 886 517 369 862 24 2.78
Greek Church .. .. 232 167 65 189 43 22.75
Catholic Apostolic .. .. 381 171 210 326 55 16.87
Other Sects—
Hebrews .. .. .. 1,867 982 885 1,611 256 15.89
Mormons, Latter-day Saints .. 279 146 133 272 7 2.57
Spiritualists .. .. 1,054 526 528 499 555 111.22
Buddhists, Confucians, &c. .. 1,452 1,431 21 2,432 — 980 — 40.30
Others .. .. .. 356 200 156 250 106 42.40
No Denomination—
Freethinkers .. .. 3,116 2,520 596 2,856 260 9.10
Agnostics .. .. 734 568 166 552 182 32.97
Deists, Theists .. .. 38 29 9 59 — 21 — 35.59
No Denomination .. .. 5,416 3,504 1,912 4,740 676 14.26
Doubtful .. .. 34 15 19 33 1 3.03
No Religion—
No Religion .. .. 1,600 1,175 425 1,012 588 58.10
Atheists .. .. 101 94 7 80 21 26.25
Secularists .. .. 8 5 3 17 — 9 — 52.94
Object to state .. .. 24,325 15,974 8,351 18,295 6,030 32.96
Unspecified .. .. 1,884 1,247 637 882 1,002 113.6
  • At the Census taken in March, 1901, 71,034 persons were described in the household schedules as “Wesleyan Methodists,”

NOTE.—The minus sign (—) indicates decrease.



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7 January 1907
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  • E. J. von Dadelszen, Registrar-General