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U.S. Membership Report
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United States
Denominational Groups, 2000
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| 39,994,852 |
26,091,321 |
989,106 |
62,035,042 |
12,254,099 |
140,057,419 |
| Evangelical Protestant |
Mainline Protestant |
Orthodox |
Catholic |
Other |
Unclaimed |
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Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
% Change |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3,592 |
+940,785 |
5.0% |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
+2,307 |
+683,206 |
19.3% |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+731 |
+400,388 |
18.5% |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+616 |
+279,124 |
40.2% |
| Old Order Amish Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+460 |
-24,764 |
-20.3% |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
+399 |
+92,275 |
36.2% |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+353 |
+84,100 |
53.3% |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+319 |
+104,007 |
57.2% |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+293 |
+19,984 |
2.2% |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+280 |
+93,901 |
42.4% |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
+233 |
+226,065 |
18.6% |
| Old Missionary Baptists Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
+229 |
+33,581 |
206.2% |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+165 |
+287,483 |
225.3% |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+81 |
+59,241 |
21.8% |
| Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA |
Orthodox |
+81 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+80 |
+71,046 |
42.3% |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+73 |
+15,340 |
43.1% |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+70 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+57 |
-82,663 |
-3.2% |
| Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+55 |
+2,409 |
6.3% |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+49 |
-14,850 |
-3.5% |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
+42 |
+19,208 |
2.2% |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+41 |
+34,743 |
76.4% |
| Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of |
Evangelical Protestant |
+37 |
+6,045 |
27.4% |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
+34 |
-7,495 |
-3.9% |
| Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+31 |
+4,782 |
17.5% |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+28 |
+5,743 |
29.1% |
| National Association of Congregational Christian Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
+27 |
-14,730 |
-14.9% |
| Church of God in Christ, Mennonite |
Evangelical Protestant |
+25 |
+2,802 |
22.4% |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+24 |
+22,775 |
10.1% |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+23 |
+5,535 |
10.2% |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
+16 |
-26,946 |
-36.8% |
| Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America |
Orthodox |
+13 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Hutterian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
+12 |
+1,263 |
11.4% |
| Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
+11 |
+1,179 |
14.3% |
| Evangelical Mennonite Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+8 |
+1,503 |
29.3% |
| American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church |
Orthodox |
+6 |
+5,390 |
36.9% |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
+6 |
-17,398 |
-13.3% |
| Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
+5 |
+4,171 |
21.1% |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
+5 |
-39,278 |
-13.4% |
| Moravian Church in America--Southern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
+4 |
-1,505 |
-7.1% |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
+3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Reformed Church in the United States |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
+514 |
13.8% |
| Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+877 |
24.9% |
| Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+503 |
13.0% |
| Moravian Church in America--Alaska Province |
Mainline Protestant |
+2 |
-2,776 |
-52.0% |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+10,849 |
11.9% |
| Wayne Trail Missionary Baptist Association |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+289 |
11.7% |
| Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses |
Orthodox |
+1 |
+472 |
1.4% |
| Church of God General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-445 |
-8.3% |
| Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-278 |
-13.3% |
| Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-22 |
-25.3% |
| Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America |
Orthodox |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Fundamental Methodist Conference, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-28 |
-2.7% |
| Netherlands Reformed Congregations |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-727 |
-14.1% |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+121,719 |
46.9% |
| General Six Principle Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-147 |
-85.5% |
| Midwest Congregational Christian Fellowship |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-175 |
-9.3% |
| Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese |
Orthodox |
-1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| New Hope Baptist Association |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
-378 |
-12.0% |
| Old Order River Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
+26 |
5.1% |
| Primitive Methodist Church in the USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
-3,141 |
-39.6% |
| Duck River and Kindred Baptists Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
-3 |
-673 |
-5.1% |
| Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection |
Evangelical Protestant |
-5 |
-662 |
-26.2% |
| Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) |
Evangelical Protestant |
-5 |
-65 |
-0.4% |
| Enterprise Baptists Association |
Evangelical Protestant |
-5 |
-712 |
-11.9% |
| Moravian Church in America--Northern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
-5 |
-5,378 |
-17.2% |
| Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch |
Orthodox |
-6 |
-16,155 |
-53.9% |
| Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association |
Evangelical Protestant |
-8 |
-2,166 |
-11.8% |
| Jasper Baptist and Pleasant Valley Baptist Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
-9 |
-2,131 |
-23.1% |
| International Pentecostal Church of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
-11 |
+1,351 |
32.9% |
| Churches of God, General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
-16 |
+705 |
1.7% |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
-19 |
-130,530 |
-5.3% |
| Missionary Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
-19 |
+9,580 |
24.0% |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
-21 |
-27,255 |
-7.5% |
| Cumberland Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
-31 |
-13,354 |
-14.7% |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
-47 |
-15,307 |
-8.2% |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
-50 |
+5,733 |
2.5% |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-52 |
+5,270 |
1.8% |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
-56 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
-70 |
-35,429 |
-2.1% |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-88 |
+13,471 |
16.3% |
| Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) |
Mainline Protestant |
-128 |
-18,858 |
-51.4% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
-173 |
-113,380 |
-2.2% |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
-208 |
+140,914 |
17.7% |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
-243 |
-755 |
-0.8% |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
-246 |
-106,269 |
-5.7% |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
-248 |
+158,796 |
2.7% |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
-279 |
-90,404 |
-7.5% |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
-327 |
-411,769 |
-11.6% |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
-397 |
-294,541 |
-14.8% |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
-433 |
-38,865 |
-19.9% |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
-650 |
+8,649,044 |
16.2% |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
-696 |
-19,973 |
-1.9% |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
-1,517 |
-740,403 |
-6.7% |
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Totals:
+4,861
| +10,305,407 |
+8.1% |
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The population of the United States in 1990 was 248,709,766; in 2000 it was 281,421,839. The total population changed 13.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (137,064,509) represent 55.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (141,364,420) include 50.2% of the 2000 population.There is sufficient data for 88 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 88 groups had 126,721,485 adherents in 1990 and 137,026,892 adherents in 2000, for a change of 8.1%
Sources
The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.
The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.
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