Montgomery County, Maryland
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
% Change |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+135 |
201.5% |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
+4 |
+2,275 |
182.0% |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+4 |
+362 |
172.4% |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+7 |
+665 |
124.5% |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
+15 |
+6,980 |
87.9% |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+2,887 |
84.9% |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+370 |
78.1% |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
+11 |
+30,575 |
57.4% |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+20 |
54.1% |
| American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church |
Orthodox |
0 |
+72 |
53.3% |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+1,012 |
45.8% |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+92 |
33.0% |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
+18 |
+6,103 |
26.3% |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+86 |
25.4% |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+139 |
22.2% |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
+948 |
10.7% |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+135 |
10.0% |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+13 |
+1,044 |
9.3% |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
+3 |
+15,136 |
8.9% |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
+3 |
+123 |
8.5% |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
+8 |
+457 |
7.3% |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+12 |
6.7% |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+35 |
6.1% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
+429 |
4.9% |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
+1 |
+301 |
2.1% |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-44 |
-2.7% |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
-2 |
-2,598 |
-7.3% |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
0 |
-274 |
-8.8% |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
-384 |
-12.5% |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-492 |
-12.8% |
| Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-276 |
-32.8% |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
-145 |
-41.4% |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-110 |
-50.0% |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
-670 |
-63.0% |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
-87 |
-63.0% |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
0 |
-3,076 |
-76.9% |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-390 |
-82.1% |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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Totals:
+87
| +61,847 |
+16.6% |
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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 adherent totals for 1990 (399,477) represent 52.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (459,923) include 52.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 37 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 37 groups had 371,538 adherents in 1990 and 433,385 adherents in 2000, for a change of 16.6%
Sources
The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.
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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