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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 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+165 |
+287,483 |
225.3% |
| Old Missionary Baptists Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
+229 |
+33,581 |
206.2% |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+41 |
+34,743 |
76.4% |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+319 |
+104,007 |
57.2% |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+353 |
+84,100 |
53.3% |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+121,719 |
46.9% |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+73 |
+15,340 |
43.1% |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+280 |
+93,901 |
42.4% |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+80 |
+71,046 |
42.3% |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+616 |
+279,124 |
40.2% |
| American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church |
Orthodox |
+6 |
+5,390 |
36.9% |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
+399 |
+92,275 |
36.2% |
| International Pentecostal Church of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
-11 |
+1,351 |
32.9% |
| Evangelical Mennonite Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+8 |
+1,503 |
29.3% |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+28 |
+5,743 |
29.1% |
| Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of |
Evangelical Protestant |
+37 |
+6,045 |
27.4% |
| Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+877 |
24.9% |
| Missionary Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
-19 |
+9,580 |
24.0% |
| Church of God in Christ, Mennonite |
Evangelical Protestant |
+25 |
+2,802 |
22.4% |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+81 |
+59,241 |
21.8% |
| Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
+5 |
+4,171 |
21.1% |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
+2,307 |
+683,206 |
19.3% |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
+233 |
+226,065 |
18.6% |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+731 |
+400,388 |
18.5% |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
-208 |
+140,914 |
17.7% |
| Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+31 |
+4,782 |
17.5% |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-88 |
+13,471 |
16.3% |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
-650 |
+8,649,044 |
16.2% |
| Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
+11 |
+1,179 |
14.3% |
| Reformed Church in the United States |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
+514 |
13.8% |
| Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+503 |
13.0% |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+10,849 |
11.9% |
| Wayne Trail Missionary Baptist Association |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+289 |
11.7% |
| Hutterian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
+12 |
+1,263 |
11.4% |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+23 |
+5,535 |
10.2% |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+24 |
+22,775 |
10.1% |
| Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+55 |
+2,409 |
6.3% |
| Old Order River Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
+26 |
5.1% |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3,592 |
+940,785 |
5.0% |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
-248 |
+158,796 |
2.7% |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
-50 |
+5,733 |
2.5% |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
+42 |
+19,208 |
2.2% |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+293 |
+19,984 |
2.2% |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-52 |
+5,270 |
1.8% |
| Churches of God, General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
-16 |
+705 |
1.7% |
| Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses |
Orthodox |
+1 |
+472 |
1.4% |
| Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) |
Evangelical Protestant |
-5 |
-65 |
-0.4% |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
-243 |
-755 |
-0.8% |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
-696 |
-19,973 |
-1.9% |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
-70 |
-35,429 |
-2.1% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
-173 |
-113,380 |
-2.2% |
| Fundamental Methodist Conference, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-28 |
-2.7% |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+57 |
-82,663 |
-3.2% |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+49 |
-14,850 |
-3.5% |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
+34 |
-7,495 |
-3.9% |
| Duck River and Kindred Baptists Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
-3 |
-673 |
-5.1% |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
-19 |
-130,530 |
-5.3% |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
-246 |
-106,269 |
-5.7% |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
-1,517 |
-740,403 |
-6.7% |
| Moravian Church in America--Southern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
+4 |
-1,505 |
-7.1% |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
-279 |
-90,404 |
-7.5% |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
-21 |
-27,255 |
-7.5% |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
-47 |
-15,307 |
-8.2% |
| Church of God General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-445 |
-8.3% |
| Midwest Congregational Christian Fellowship |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-175 |
-9.3% |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
-327 |
-411,769 |
-11.6% |
| Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association |
Evangelical Protestant |
-8 |
-2,166 |
-11.8% |
| Enterprise Baptists Association |
Evangelical Protestant |
-5 |
-712 |
-11.9% |
| New Hope Baptist Association |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
-378 |
-12.0% |
| Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-278 |
-13.3% |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
+6 |
-17,398 |
-13.3% |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
+5 |
-39,278 |
-13.4% |
| Netherlands Reformed Congregations |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-727 |
-14.1% |
| Cumberland Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
-31 |
-13,354 |
-14.7% |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
-397 |
-294,541 |
-14.8% |
| National Association of Congregational Christian Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
+27 |
-14,730 |
-14.9% |
| Moravian Church in America--Northern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
-5 |
-5,378 |
-17.2% |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
-433 |
-38,865 |
-19.9% |
| Old Order Amish Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+460 |
-24,764 |
-20.3% |
| Jasper Baptist and Pleasant Valley Baptist Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
-9 |
-2,131 |
-23.1% |
| Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-22 |
-25.3% |
| Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection |
Evangelical Protestant |
-5 |
-662 |
-26.2% |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
+16 |
-26,946 |
-36.8% |
| Primitive Methodist Church in the USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
-3,141 |
-39.6% |
| Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) |
Mainline Protestant |
-128 |
-18,858 |
-51.4% |
| Moravian Church in America--Alaska Province |
Mainline Protestant |
+2 |
-2,776 |
-52.0% |
| Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch |
Orthodox |
-6 |
-16,155 |
-53.9% |
| General Six Principle Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-147 |
-85.5% |
| Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America |
Orthodox |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+70 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
+3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese |
Orthodox |
-1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America |
Orthodox |
+13 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
-56 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA |
Orthodox |
+81 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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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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