Snapshot

	1990^*	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	n.a.	892	--
Adherents	n.a.	98,874	--

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

Membership Data [Download .csv Data]

Year	Clergy	Congregations	Members
1999	20,370	1,236	137,065
2001	19,352	1,346	137,844
2002	18,337	951	142,106
2003	16,026	904	163,850
2004	19,318	1,236	176,189
2005	20,420	1,236	180,339
2007	20,420	935	178,328

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]