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Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Denominational Groups, 2000

9,401 40,162 7,543 380,930 46,344 165,928
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 19 5,834 9.6
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 890 1.5
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 5 955 1.6
Catholic Church Catholic 64 304,137 501.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 132 0.2
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 3 95 0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 432 0.7
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 855 1.4
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 114 0.2
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 115 0.2
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 31 17,955 29.6
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 121 0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 198 0.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 8 2,764 4.6
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 192 0.3
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 20 8,258 13.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 1,098 1.8
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 3 1,165 1.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 4 1,380 2.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 612 1.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 52 0.1
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 121 0.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 18 4,719 7.8
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 31 15,496 25.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 17 6,019 9.9
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 248 373,709  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 606,587. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (373,709) include 61.6% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.