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  1990 2000* Growth/Decline
Congregations 1,862 n.a. --
Adherents -- n.a. --


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Year Clergy Congregations Members
1925 3,824 1,912 -
1929 4,848 2,424 -
1931 - - 202,098
1935 4,264 2,132 202,098
1936 - 2,113 268,915
1937 - 2,130 -
1946 - - 268,915
1992 0 2,500 -
1993 - 2,400 -
1995 - 2,400 -
1998 - 2,200 -
2002 - 2,000 -

Notes

Snapshot

Data are from Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 and Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org.

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Data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. Denomination descriptions provided by Dr. J. Gordon Melton, Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion (ISAR). [More information on data sources]