| Table 3. Religion by District, New Ireland: 2000 | |||
| Total | Kavieng | Namatanai | |
| Total | 118,350 | 53,421 | 64,929 |
| None | 124 | 41 | 83 |
| Anglican | 287 | 190 | 97 |
| Evan. Brotherhood | 47 | 24 | 23 |
| South Seas | 695 | 224 | 471 |
| Church of Papua | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| Wesleyan Church | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Church of Manus | 15 | 3 | 12 |
| Lutheran | 1,556 | 1,065 | 491 |
| Gutnius Lutheran | 25 | 17 | 8 |
| Roman Catholic | 45,830 | 14,595 | 31,235 |
| Salvation Army | 28 | 4 | 24 |
| Seventh Day Adventist | 10,206 | 8,185 | 2,021 |
| United Church | 46,575 | 23,187 | 23,388 |
| Kwato Church | 10 | 8 | 2 |
| Assembly of God | 840 | 508 | 332 |
| Revival Crusade | 491 | 279 | 212 |
| Life Center | 361 | 107 | 254 |
| Lighthouse church | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| Four Square Gospel | 718 | 24 | 694 |
| Rhema Fellowship | 12 | 4 | 8 |
| Wewak Fellowship | 11 | 9 | 2 |
| Other Pentacostal | 3,400 | 1,902 | 1,498 |
| Baptist | 495 | 126 | 369 |
| Boroko Baptist | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Sepik Baptist | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sovereign Grace | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tokarra Christ. | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Western Highland | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apostolic Church | 59 | 43 | 16 |
| Asia Pacific | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Asutalian Church | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bamu River | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brethern Church | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Many lands | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Union Mission | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nazarene | 97 | 1 | 96 |
| Faith mission | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hohola Mission | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New Guinea Gospel | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| New Life Mission | 176 | 0 | 176 |
| New Tribes | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Paliau (Makasol) | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| Plymouth Brethern | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Presbyterian | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Tiliba Mission | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Village Mission | 522 | 123 | 399 |
| Other Christian | 1,896 | 1,001 | 895 |
| Bahai of PNG | 218 | 215 | 3 |
| Buddhism | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Church of Christ | 8 | 2 | 6 |
| Islam | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jehovah Witness | 540 | 438 | 102 |
| Judaism | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Hindu | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other religion | 607 | 199 | 408 |
| NR | 2,099 | 555 | 1,544 |
| NA | 357 | 318 | 39 |
| Source: 2000 Papua New Guinea Census | |||