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Frederick County, Maryland

Denominational Groups, 2000

16,493 36,978 1,333 35,153 3,110 102,210
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 80 0.5
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 655 4.4
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 95 0.6
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 2,236 14.9
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 2 91 0.6
Catholic Church Catholic 11 18,018 120.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 343 2.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 191 1.3
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 991 6.6
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 3 116 0.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 1,378 9.2
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 11 3,318 22.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 319 2.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 183 1.2
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant 7 589 3.9
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 8 2,094 13.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 30 13,863 92.3
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 23 0.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 117 0.8
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 600 4.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 176 1.2
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 1 25 0.2
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 1 387 2.6
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 1 75 0.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 3 674 4.5
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 103 0.7
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 126 0.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 788 5.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 7 4,012 26.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 138 0.9
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 15 4,467 29.7
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 52 14,225 94.7
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 183 70,496  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 150,208. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (70,496) include 46.9% 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.