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Stanislaus County, California

Denominational Groups, 2000

61,374 12,273 4,502 105,628 11,669 251,551
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 200 0.5
American Association of Lutheran Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 126 0.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 6 987 2.7
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses Orthodox 2 3,201 8.6
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 35 8,988 24.3
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 293 0.8
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 1,835 5.0
Catholic Church Catholic 15 66,083 178.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 357 1.0
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 22 0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 4 856 2.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 971 2.6
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 2 829 2.2
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 3 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 153 0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 4 478 1.3
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 2 82 0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 23 9,350 25.2
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 3 814 2.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 6 1,360 3.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 18 2,505 6.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 5 2,176 5.9
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 3 1,008 2.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 1,436 3.9
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 3 347 0.9
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 280 0.8
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 450 1.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 3 7,725 20.9
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 3 949 2.6
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 3 98 0.3
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 450 1.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 5 1,911 5.2
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 100 0.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 4 447 1.2
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 33 0.1
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 13 1,267 3.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 9 2,524 6.8
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 55 0.2
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 316 0.9
Reformed Church in the United States Evangelical Protestant 1 54 0.2
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 200 0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 7 3,716 10.0
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 24 8,400 22.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 152 0.4
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 585 1.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 10 4,936 13.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 133 0.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 250 139,238  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 370,522. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (139,238) include 37.6% 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.