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Baltimore County, Maryland

Denominational Groups, 2000

50,412 67,366 1,757 181,212 47,154 406,391
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 100 0.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 607 0.9
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 10 2,229 3.4
Catholic Church Catholic 32 140,358 214.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 5 422 0.6
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 135 0.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 11 1,654 2.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 391 0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 7 1,088 1.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 3 1,166 1.8
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 5 537 0.8
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 450 0.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 549 0.8
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 19 14,432 22.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 14 8,699 13.3
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 219 0.3
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 52 0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 2 387 0.6
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 1,007 1.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 14 7,207 11.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 20 9,215 14.1
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 5 2,239 3.4
Reformed Episcopal Church Evangelical Protestant 3 756 1.2
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 4 1,033 1.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 11 2,577 3.9
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 4 950 1.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 3 768 1.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 6 3,191 4.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 125 54,658 83.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 161 0.3
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 320 257,237  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 655,615. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (257,237) include 39.2% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.