NAC worldwide: the key figures

The New Apostolic Church is a community that spans the globe: it incorporates some 9 million members in nearly 200 countries of the world (as of 31 December 2025).

About 87 per cent of the Church’s members live on the African continent, while 4.5 per cent live in Asia, 4.5 per cent in Europe, 2.5 per cent in North, Central, and South America, and 1.5 per cent in Oceania.

The Church’s more than 51,000 congregations are served by a good 233,000 ministers under the leadership of 366 Apostles.

Doing the math: fun facts

It would take about 16 years for the responsible District Apostle to visit and conduct a divine service in every single congregation of Kinshasa: the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo is comprised of some 1,700 congregations. The country’s two Regional Churches are home to approximately one third of all the Church’s members.

About 600 kilometres: that would be the height of the pile if one were to stack up all the communion wafers produced to date by all the bakeries of the New Apostolic Church. This amounts to 30 times the distance between the highest and the lowest points on the earth’s surface, namely from the top of Mount Everest to the deepest part of the Mariana Trench.