Anne Arundel County, Maryland

Denominational Groups, 2000

32,626	55,617	1,501	107,463	6,168	286,281
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	+6	+616	52.7%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+51	150.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+34,955	48.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+263	54.2%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-62	-31.8%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,723	108.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+20	54.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+3	-16	-0.6%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-90	-27.4%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-108	-14.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+83	20.1%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-774	-9.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,068	-10.6%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-27	-41.5%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+84	178.7%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	+390	65.0%
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+3	7.1%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+1,000	50.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-143	-3.4%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+2	+734	16.2%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,952	109.2%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+551	810.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+222	28.5%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+483	3.9%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+56	13.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-71	-50.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	+1,124	3.5%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+149	55.2%
	Totals:	+25	+42,100	+26.6%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 427,239; in 2000 it was 489,656. The total population changed 14.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (173,623) represent 40.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (203,375) include 41.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 28 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 28 groups had 158,258 adherents in 1990 and 200,358 adherents in 2000, for a change of 26.6%

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 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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