The Washington Post mapped out the religious affiliations of House members of the 114th Congress by district. Here's what it looks like (click here if you can't view).
A few takeaways:
1) The House is overwhelmingly Christian. There are only 30 members who aren't, and of those, 19 are Jewish. Non-Christian members of the House are also overwhelmingly Democratic. Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin (N.Y.), who is Jewish, is the lone exception. Overall, Christians make up 73 percent of U.S. adults, according to Pew, but nearly 92 percent of members of the House and Senate.
2) Catholics are the largest group in the House, with 139 members (if you don't consider all Protestants as one group). Considering how many Catholics there are in Congress, some may be surprised that John F. Kennedy remains the only Catholic president we've had. Baptists make up the second-largest group with 68 members, and many of them are from Southern states, and Methodists are the third-largest, with 41 members, many who tend to be in the East.
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3) The only two states where all House members are the same faith (other than states with only one district) are Idaho and Utah, where all members are Mormon. Mormon members are also all Republican now, without former Rep. Jim Matheson (D-Utah), who did not seek reelection in 2014. (There are still two Mormon Democrats in the Senate -- Nevada's Harry Reid and New Mexico's Tom Udall.)
4) The religions that saw an increase in the number of House members from the last Congress were Catholics (from 136 to 139), Baptists (from 66 to 68) and Mormons (from eight to nine), while numbers dropped for Methodists (from 45 to 41), Anglicans/Episcopalians (from 35 to 32), Presbyterians (from 28 to 24), Jews (from 22 to 19), and Buddhists (from two to one).
5) Although 4 percent of U.S. adults are atheist or agnostic, there are no sitting atheist or agnostic members of the House. But there are nine members, or just less than 2 percent, who have not publicly stated a religious affiliation.
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You can look through the House members and their religious affiliation (and search for your member) below:
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