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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
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +48,983 84.0%
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +55 786.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +7 +1,244 230.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +85 n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +580 345.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -254 -66.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +3 +2,248 210.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +57 n.a.
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 +104 77.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -341 -34.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 +100 25.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +38 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +990 n.a.
International Pentecostal Church of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +45 n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +97 2.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +6 +2,711 264.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +258 72.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +187 23.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +8 +3,173 33.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +4 +419 n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -1,634 -17.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +2 +894 11.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +95 264.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +2 +1,295 32.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -196 -73.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -2 +2,401 8.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +1,269 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +6 +1,472 132.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +2,640 733.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology -1 +259 114.0%
  Totals: +48 +69,274 +52.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 370,775; in 2000 it was 489,656. The total population changed 14.6%. The adherent totals for 1980 (133,238) represent 35.9% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 30 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 30 groups had 132,415 adherents in 1980 and 201,689 adherents in 2000, for a change of 52.3%

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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