Year-by-Year (Click on a point to see data)

Membership Data [Download .csv Data]

Year	Clergy	Congregations	Members
1953	117	89	21,106
1954	112	87	21,133
1955	90	86	21,800
1956	90	86	22,220
1957	101	82	23,050
1958	100	80	23,000
1959	83	79	23,800
1960	83	80	24,201
1961	84	76	23,808

Year-by-Year

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]