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Adams County, Colorado

Denominational Groups, 2000

25,552 13,013   60,429 11,435 253,428
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
American Association of Lutheran Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 242 0.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 1,149 4.3
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 6 1,809 6.8
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 568 2.1
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 2,461 9.3
Catholic Church Catholic 8 32,308 121.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 405 1.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 192 0.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 2,316 8.7
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 3 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 45 0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 293 1.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 10 4,074 15.4
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 5 1,240 4.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 330 1.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 125 0.5
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 469 1.8
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 175 0.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 9 4,936 18.6
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 50 0.2
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 675 2.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 3 1,700 6.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 6 289 1.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 214 0.8
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 6,453 24.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 7 3,798 14.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 73 0.3
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 115 0.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 10 3,002 11.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 50 0.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 875 3.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 10 4,199 15.8
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 3 453 1.7
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 8 4,574 17.3
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 299 1.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 146 0.6
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 128 80,102  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 265,038. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (80,102) include 30.2% 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.