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	37	185,136	212.0
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	36	83,800	96.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	61	33,129	37.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	64	29,328	33.6
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	8	18,426	21.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	30	14,919	17.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	25	14,714	16.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	30	12,210	14.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	27	9,815	11.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	15	9,232	10.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	22	6,744	7.7
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	6,287	7.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	3,525	4.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	7	3,347	3.8
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	3,223	3.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	5	2,838	3.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	6	2,694	3.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	2,160	2.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,615	1.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	8	1,563	1.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,486	1.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,199	1.4
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	1	1,174	1.3
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	924	1.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	4	844	1.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	766	0.9
Bahá'í	Other Theology	11	756	0.9
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	760	0.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	4	612	0.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	6	572	0.7
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	566	0.7
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	505	0.6
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	487	0.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	425	0.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	3	394	0.5
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, American Diocese of the	Orthodox	2	375	0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	5	371	0.4
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	369	0.4
Orthodox Church in America: Bulgarian Diocese	Orthodox	1	354	0.4
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	342	0.4
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	280	0.3
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	1	207	0.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	205	0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	202	0.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	190	0.2
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	160	0.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	156	0.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	110	0.1
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	99	0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	85	0.1
Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in North America	Orthodox	1	81	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	57	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	51	0.1
Jain	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Sikh	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Hindu	Other Theology	17	n.a.	n.a.
Buddhism	Other Theology	20	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	546	459,923
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		574,218

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 757,027; in 2000 it was 873,341. The total population changed 15.4%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (459,923) include 52.7% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (574,218) include 65.7% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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