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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 % Change
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +60 +16,295 79.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +21 +27,812 116.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +19 +2,535 29.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +17 +3,853 n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +17 +9,039 53.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +15 -105 -3.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +10 +782 n.a.
Catholic Church Catholic +10 +297,320 200.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +8 +890 140.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +8 +470 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +8 +19,400 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +7 +10,600 n.a.
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +7 +1,876 30.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +7 +4,631 66.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +6 +896 1149.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +1,612 305.0%
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant +5 +828 162.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +4 -64 -2.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +4 +1,763 142.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +3 +305 5.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant +3 +1,924 n.a.
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +3 +793 31.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant +2 +293 222.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +2 +906 n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +509 8.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +2 -669 -22.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +659 117.0%
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +66 11.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 -1,682 -26.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +127 80.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +110 n.a.
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +1 -4,123 -38.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +1 +65 n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 +84 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +295 40.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 -394 -25.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -1,145 -35.0%
Protestant Reformed Churches in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +97 66.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +31 258.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -749 -24.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 -13 n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +22 24.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 +2,014 82.0%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -34 -26.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -1 +2,619 82.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -2 -398 -16.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology -2 -23 -9.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -2 -1,419 -63.0%
  Totals: +256 +400,703 +134.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 895,016; in 2000 it was 1,709,434. The total population changed 20.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (298,798) represent 33.4% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (717,905) include 42.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 48 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 48 groups had 298,361 adherents in 1980 and 699,064 adherents in 2000, for a change of 134.3%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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