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Reno County, Kansas

Denominational Groups, 2000

13,701 12,687   6,482 416 31,504
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 4 1,603 25.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 3 405 6.5
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 355 5.7
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 460 7.4
Catholic Church Catholic 5 6,339 101.6
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 50 0.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 5 2,301 36.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 741 11.9
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 345 5.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 40 0.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 325 5.2
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 350 5.6
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 5 1,487 23.8
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 863 13.8
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 533 8.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 140 2.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 991 15.9
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 20 0.3
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 206 3.3
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 500 8.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 15 0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 489 7.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 1,411 22.6
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 1 490 7.9
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 9 2,316 37.1
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 29 0.5
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 290 4.7
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 34 0.5
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 3 450 7.2
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 1 77 1.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 4 1,692 27.1
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 98 1.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 208 3.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 3 1,385 22.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 288 4.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 15 6,887 110.4
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 175 2.8
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 98 34,388  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 62,389. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (34,388) include 55.1% 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.