Montgomery County, Maryland

Denominational Groups, 2000

68,832	87,125	6,266	185,136	112,564	413,418
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	34	170,000	224.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	25	53,225	70.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	63	35,727	47.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	25,000	33.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	46	23,225	30.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	24	14,413	19.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	17	11,166	14.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	27	8,867	11.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	15	8,803	11.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	15	7,939	10.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	14	6,287	8.3
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	4,000	5.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	7	3,839	5.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	3,400	4.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	5	3,112	4.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	7	3,078	4.1
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	2,211	2.9
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,985	2.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,659	2.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	5	1,440	1.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,351	1.8
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,250	1.7
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	4	1,064	1.4
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	842	1.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	627	0.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	577	0.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	5	534	0.7
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	517	0.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	2	475	0.6
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	4	474	0.6
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	350	0.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	339	0.5
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	315	0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	5	279	0.4
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	220	0.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	2	210	0.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	178	0.2
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	138	0.2
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	1	135	0.2
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	68	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	37	0.1
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	390	399,477

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 757,027. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (399,477) include 52.8% 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.