Denver County, Colorado

Denominational Groups, 2000

36,497	46,885	2,433	159,196	48,978	260,647
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	2	336	0.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	17	10,951	23.4
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	99	0.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	16	5,129	11.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,007	2.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	15,624	33.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	39	83,614	178.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	155	0.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	11	3,139	6.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	427	0.9
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,773	5.9
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	5	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	4	373	0.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	3	711	1.5
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	228	0.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	54	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	11	5,002	10.7
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	233	0.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	5	536	1.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	10	3,301	7.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	7	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	16	12,782	27.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,086	2.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	12	6,433	13.8
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	704	1.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	559	1.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	5,750	12.3
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	900	1.9
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	505	1.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	16	11,385	24.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	10	5,015	10.7
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	2	137	0.3
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	448	1.0
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	178	0.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	16	7,240	15.5
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	6	1,898	4.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	144	0.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	4,918	10.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	9	8,214	17.6
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	911	2.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	11	2,000	4.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	24	10,729	22.9
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	170	0.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	569	1.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	323	216,428

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 467,610. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (216,428) include 46.3% 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.