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County Membership Report
San Bernardino County, California
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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 |
Adherence Rate† |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
95 |
38,532 |
27.2 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
64 |
11,519 |
8.1 |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
59 |
211,519 |
149.1 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
50 |
45,075 |
31.8 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
38 |
3,917 |
2.8 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
36 |
28,652 |
20.2 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
29 |
8,273 |
5.8 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
27 |
10,215 |
7.2 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
27 |
4,816 |
3.4 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
25 |
5,725 |
4.0 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
22 |
7,437 |
5.2 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
19 |
4,350 |
3.1 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
18 |
9,038 |
6.4 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
17 |
6,752 |
4.8 |
| Independent Fundamental Churches of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
14 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
13 |
3,352 |
2.4 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
13 |
3,039 |
2.1 |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
13 |
2,637 |
1.9 |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
12 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
12 |
1,478 |
1.0 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
11 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
1,190 |
0.8 |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
819 |
0.6 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
1,094 |
0.8 |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
3,462 |
2.4 |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
3,175 |
2.2 |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
1,535 |
1.1 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
7 |
1,908 |
1.4 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
758 |
0.5 |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
3,950 |
2.8 |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
1,629 |
1.2 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
253 |
0.2 |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
505 |
0.4 |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
212 |
0.2 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
563 |
0.4 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
4 |
6,175 |
4.4 |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
126 |
0.1 |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
199 |
0.1 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
77 |
0.1 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Missionary Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
208 |
0.2 |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
3 |
1,446 |
1.0 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
245 |
0.2 |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
218 |
0.2 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
2 |
132 |
0.1 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
436 |
0.3 |
| Church of God (Seventh Day) |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
139 |
0.1 |
| Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
215 |
0.2 |
| Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
43 |
0.0 |
| Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
905 |
0.6 |
| Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
11 |
0.0 |
| Cumberland Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
111 |
0.1 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
1 |
187 |
0.1 |
| Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| National Association of Congregational Christian Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
143 |
0.1 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses |
Orthodox |
0 |
57 |
0.0 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
32,902 |
23.2 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 752 |
471,354 |
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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.
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