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County Membership Report
Pinellas County, Florida
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
28 |
131,099 |
153.9 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
43 |
44,193 |
51.9 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
35 |
41,126 |
48.3 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
19,670 |
23.1 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
32 |
14,912 |
17.5 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
21 |
13,150 |
15.4 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
18 |
11,929 |
14.0 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
8 |
9,500 |
11.2 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
16 |
8,614 |
10.1 |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
12 |
7,407 |
8.7 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
6,715 |
7.9 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
6,166 |
7.2 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
13 |
4,862 |
5.7 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
10 |
4,421 |
5.2 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
23 |
4,219 |
5.0 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
7 |
2,932 |
3.4 |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
2,669 |
3.1 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
2,414 |
2.8 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
6 |
2,062 |
2.4 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
6 |
2,011 |
2.4 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
1,732 |
2.0 |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
1,600 |
1.9 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
795 |
0.9 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
717 |
0.8 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
4 |
707 |
0.8 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
674 |
0.8 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
516 |
0.6 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
502 |
0.6 |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
2 |
398 |
0.5 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
365 |
0.4 |
| Missionary Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
349 |
0.4 |
| Advent Christian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
244 |
0.3 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
243 |
0.3 |
| Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
209 |
0.3 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
202 |
0.2 |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
185 |
0.2 |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
147 |
0.2 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
2 |
146 |
0.2 |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
117 |
0.1 |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
108 |
0.1 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
80 |
0.1 |
| Jasper Baptist and Pleasant Valley Baptist Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
58 |
0.1 |
| Primitive Baptists Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
57 |
0.1 |
| Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
53 |
0.1 |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
37 |
0.0 |
| Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
35 |
0.0 |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
17 |
0.0 |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
14 |
0.0 |
| Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
12 |
0.0 |
| Reformed Episcopal Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
6 |
0.0 |
| Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
4 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
9 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 396 |
350,396 |
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The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 851,659. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (350,396) include 41.1% 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.
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