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Alachua County, Florida

Denominational Groups, 2000

33,865 18,377 201 15,984 4,810 144,718
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
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -178 -56.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +4 +592 173.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +6,931 77.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -98 -81.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -57 -29.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -6 -5.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +510 84.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +48 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +2 +598 66.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +1 +140 26.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 -513 -20.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -1 +596 33.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +459 414.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +2 +916 n.a.
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -70 -71.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +201 n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant -1 +50 18.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +2 +1,989 943.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +455 74.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -744 -24.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +328 342.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +155 162.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +439 97.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +12 +4,022 20.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +117 50.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 +466 258.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -3 +1,980 20.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant +1 +42 168.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 0 0.0%
  Totals: +25 +19,368 +37.0%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 151,348; in 2000 it was 217,955. The total population changed 20.0%. The adherent totals for 1980 (52,858) represent 34.9% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (73,237) include 33.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 29 groups had 52,360 adherents in 1980 and 71,728 adherents in 2000, for a change of 37.0%

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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