Religions, 1861-1901—Numbers and Proportions., TABLE XXVII.—Showing the Numbers and Proportions per Cent. of Persons attached to the Principal Religious Denominations at the last Five Censuses.

Religious Denominations.	Number of Persons.					Proportions per cent.
	1861.	1871.	1881.	1891.	1901.	1861.	1871.	1881.	1891.	1901.
Total Population	540,322	731,528	862,346	1,140,405	1,201,341
Total specified Religions	522,392	716,003	847,291	1,117,528	1,184,957	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00
Church of England	205,695	251,328	299,542	401,604	424,011	39.38	35.10	35.35	35.94	35.78
Roman Catholic	107,610	167,468	197,157	240,310	260,016	20.60	23.39	23.27	21.51	21.94
Presbyterians	87,103	112,983	132,591	167,027	191,503	16.67	15.78	15.65	14.94	16.16
Methodists	46,511	94,220	115,053	158,040	180,272	8.90	13.16	13.58	14.14	15.21
Baptist	9,001	16,311	20,373	27,883	32,648	1.72	2.28	2.40	2.49	2.75
Independent (Congregationalist)	12,777	18,191	19,878	22,110	17,141	2.46	2.54	2.35	1.98	1.45
Lutheran	10,043	10,559	11,149	15,529	13,935	1.92	1.48	1.32	1.39	1.18
Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ.	441	3,540	4,859	8,267	10,682	0.08	0.49	0.57	0.74	0.90
Christian (so stated)				1,075	744				0.10	0.06
Salvation Army				13,521	8,830				1.21	0.74
Other Christian Denominations*	12,081	13,947	22,014	31,122	20,481	2.31	1.95	2.60	2.78	1.73
No Denomination, No Sect (so stated)	952	2,161	3,475	7,640	6,113	0.18	0.30	0.41	0.68	0.52
Spiritist, Spiritualist	5	171	853	790	913		0.02	0.10	0.07	0.08
Jew	2,903	3,571	4,330	6,459	5,907	0.56	0.50	0.51	0.58	0.50
Mohammedan	189	125	111	241	467	0.04	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.04
Buddhist, Hindu, Brahman	26,223	17,677	11,180	6,788	1,612	5.02	2.47	1.32	0.61	0.14
Confucian					3,389					0.29
No Religion (so stated) Freethinker	441	2,233	3,602	7,699	4,496	0.08	0.31	0.43	0.69	0.38
Miscellaneous	417	1,518	1,124	1,423	1,797	0.08	0.21	0.13	0.13	0.15
Unspecified—
Object to state	11,536	9,965	8,598	13,608	10,827
Others	6,394	5,560	6,457	9,269	5,557