Santa Rosa County, Florida

Denominational Groups, 2000

29,843	11,237		6,230	1,581	68,852
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
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+3,410	102.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+4,051	186.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-92	-83.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+42	191.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+51	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+822	317.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+8	11.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-352	-27.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	-154	-20.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	-7	-695	-90.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+475	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+428	128.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+456	89.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+17	8.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-381	-82.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+7,526	62.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+4	+5,836	166.0%
	Totals:	+14	+21,448	+82.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 55,988; in 2000 it was 117,743. The total population changed 44.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (26,185) represent 46.8% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (48,891) include 41.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 17 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 17 groups had 25,943 adherents in 1980 and 47,391 adherents in 2000, for a change of 82.7%

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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