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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 0.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 621 0.9
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 16 5,586 8.1
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 172 0.3
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 22,757 32.9
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 1 25 0.0
Catholic Church Catholic 37 164,219 237.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 47 0.1
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 5 780 1.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 105 0.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 562 0.8
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 3 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 250 0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 7 1,335 1.9
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 36 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 2,155 3.1
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 3 261 0.4
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 306 0.4
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 7 2,607 3.8
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 24 11,056 16.0
Evangelical Congregational Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 278 0.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 50 0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 28 18,868 27.3
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 281 0.4
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 65 0.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 6 3,375 4.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 6 4,505 6.5
International Pentecostal Church of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 31 0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 470 0.7
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 9 48,701 70.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 14 6,792 9.8
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 2 137 0.2
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 222 0.3
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 8 1,753 2.5
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 8 2,570 3.7
Reformed Episcopal Church Evangelical Protestant 3 794 1.2
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 4 422 0.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 4 600 0.9
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 37 16,316 23.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 3 865 1.3
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 6 2,721 3.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 101 41,345 59.7
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 210 0.3
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 374 364,351  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 692,134. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (364,351) include 52.6% 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.