Prince George's County, Maryland

Denominational Groups, 2000

72,781	56,617	375	78,954	37,055	555,733
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^†
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	7,906	10.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	30	14,353	19.7
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,777	3.8
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	72,677	99.7
Catholic Church	Catholic	35	142,876	195.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	144	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	5	631	0.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	8	1,683	2.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	316	0.4
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	3	123	0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	8	6,333	8.7
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	4	159	0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	9	3,339	4.6
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	148	0.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	5	637	0.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,762	2.4
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	24	7,642	10.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	13	4,330	5.9
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	102	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	3	337	0.5
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	4,050	5.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	7	5,631	7.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	393	0.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	125	0.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	5	51,275	70.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	9	3,932	5.4
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	390	0.5
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	2	502	0.7
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	245	0.3
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	21	5,056	6.9
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,086	1.5
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	3,138	4.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	55	25,548	35.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	696	1.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	4	830	1.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	44	22,696	31.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	170	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	258	0.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	365	394,515

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 729,268. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (394,515) include 54.1% 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.