San Bernardino County, California

Denominational Groups, 2000

175,288	41,353	1,620	445,655	53,989	991,529
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	59	211,519	149.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	50	45,075	31.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	95	38,532	27.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	32,902	23.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	36	28,652	20.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	64	11,519	8.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	27	10,215	7.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	18	9,038	6.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	29	8,273	5.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	22	7,437	5.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	17	6,752	4.8
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	4	6,175	4.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	25	5,725	4.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	27	4,816	3.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	19	4,350	3.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	3,950	2.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	38	3,917	2.8
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	8	3,462	2.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	13	3,352	2.4
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	7	3,175	2.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	13	3,039	2.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	13	2,637	1.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	7	1,908	1.4
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,629	1.2
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,535	1.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,478	1.0
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	1,446	1.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,190	0.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,094	0.8
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	905	0.6
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	10	819	0.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	7	758	0.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	563	0.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	505	0.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	436	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	5	253	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	245	0.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	218	0.2
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	215	0.2
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	212	0.2
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	208	0.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	199	0.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	187	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	143	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	139	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	132	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	126	0.1
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	111	0.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	3	77	0.1
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	57	0.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	43	0.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	1	11	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	11	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	14	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	12	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	752	471,354

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,418,380. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (471,354) include 33.2% 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.