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Shawnee County, Kansas

Denominational Groups, 2000

22,967 26,050 152 26,615 2,620 91,467
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
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 1 21 0.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 12 5,605 34.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 5 1,340 8.3
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 4,450 27.6
Catholic Church Catholic 9 30,716 190.8
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 40 0.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 6 2,981 18.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 631 3.9
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 46 0.3
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 42 0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 1,465 9.1
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 185 1.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 5 1,920 11.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 7 1,393 8.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 2,332 14.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 60 0.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 4 2,075 12.9
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 97 0.6
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 178 1.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 350 2.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 3 2,050 12.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 170 1.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 500 3.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 7 4,716 29.3
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 1 92 0.6
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 1 126 0.8
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 59 0.4
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 1 77 0.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 12 4,653 28.9
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 142 0.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 917 5.7
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 13 6,875 42.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 143 0.9
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 5 2,428 15.1
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 23 13,192 82.0
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 4 1,032 6.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 125 0.8
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 151 93,224  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 160,976. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (93,224) include 57.9% 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.