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Fairfield County, Connecticut

Denominational Groups, 2000

22,650 95,244 9,597 433,832 57,684 263,560
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
Catholic Church Catholic 99 347,526 419.9
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 3 133 0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 6 2,012 2.4
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 19 5,287 6.4
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 558 0.7
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 19,196 23.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 244 0.3
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 100 0.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 68 0.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 14 1,305 1.6
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 4 136 0.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 5 895 1.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 594 0.7
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 3 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 62 0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 6 977 1.2
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 199 0.2
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 3 2,925 3.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 400 0.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 10 5,429 6.6
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 1 58 0.1
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 4 295 0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 5 896 1.1
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 7 2,198 2.7
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 117 0.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 27 12,656 15.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 3 437 0.5
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 2 1,529 1.9
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 46 27,705 33.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 17 7,733 9.3
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 201 0.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 62 0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 9 7,625 9.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 45 27,805 33.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 33 18,431 22.3
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox 4 1,333 1.6
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 5 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 3 n.a. n.a.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 10 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 6 1,833 2.2
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 27 45,800 55.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 5 1,228 1.5
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 452 545,988  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 827,645. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (545,988) include 66.0% 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.