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  1990* 2000 Growth/Decline
Congregations n.a. 129 --
Adherents n.a. -- --


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Year Clergy Congregations Members
1951 224 91 55,000
1955 168 81 55,000
1994 319 177 -
2003 196 180 480,000
2006 258 190 480,000
2008 269 190 480,000

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]