Orange County, California

Denominational Groups, 2000

228,801	104,299	10,629	779,647	151,215	1,571,698
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

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

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	115	49,608	20.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	60	503,628	208.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	53	15,426	6.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	46	26,956	11.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	45	22,240	9.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	38	23,091	9.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	38	5,357	2.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	36	26,573	11.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	30	19,374	8.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	28	10,165	4.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	22	95,000	39.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	22	13,078	5.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	20	26,555	11.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	20	n.a.	n.a.
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	18	4,100	1.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	18	2,548	1.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	17	4,341	1.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	16	8,376	3.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	16	13,807	5.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	16	10,174	4.2
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	15	33,950	14.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	13	2,336	1.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	13	2,852	1.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	11	3,799	1.6
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	10	2,895	1.2
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,446	0.6
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	9	n.a.	n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,051	0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,023	0.8
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	8	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	7	16,850	7.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	7	580	0.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,908	0.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	6	508	0.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	948	0.4
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	4	893	0.4
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	4	363	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	4	184	0.1
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	261	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	264	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	988	0.4
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	375	0.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	57	0.0
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	303	0.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	93	0.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	1	325	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	69	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	129	0.1
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	1	131	0.1
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	71	0.0
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	294	0.1
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	55	0.0
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	68	0.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	1	5	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	153	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	58	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	37	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	11,321	4.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	859	968,040

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 2,410,556. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (968,040) include 40.2% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga County are Episcopalian.