Middlesex County, Massachusetts
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 Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+139 |
386.1% |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+1,400 |
322.6% |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+6 |
+633 |
225.3% |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+77 |
118.5% |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+361 |
116.8% |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+70 |
107.7% |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+10 |
+2,390 |
104.8% |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
+10 |
+994 |
41.7% |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
+3 |
+1,740 |
37.2% |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+169 |
33.7% |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
+3 |
+27,433 |
31.8% |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+47 |
24.7% |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+375 |
21.1% |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+28 |
13.8% |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+105 |
10.4% |
| Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
+62 |
10.3% |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
+5 |
+120 |
6.6% |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
-7 |
+38,934 |
5.2% |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
-3 |
-0.2% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
+1 |
-238 |
-4.1% |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
-1,284 |
-6.6% |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
+2 |
-2,406 |
-9.0% |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-579 |
-12.6% |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-79 |
-13.7% |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
-5 |
-1,627 |
-14.9% |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
-4,020 |
-15.9% |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
-7 |
-5,389 |
-33.3% |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
-62 |
-37.3% |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-55 |
-38.5% |
| Primitive Methodist Church in the USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-123 |
-50.4% |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
-668 |
-76.2% |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
0 |
-9,900 |
-82.5% |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
+1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese |
Orthodox |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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Totals:
+24
| +48,644 |
+4.9% |
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The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,398,468; in 2000 it was 1,465,396. The total population changed 4.8%. The adherent totals for 1990 (993,075) represent 71.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,078,291) include 73.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 32 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 32 groups had 982,734 adherents in 1990 and 1,031,378 adherents in 2000, for a change of 4.9%
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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