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Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Denominational Groups, 2000

10,889 28,715 1,329 205,060 27,075 199,754
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 39 171,807 423.8
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 29 9,072 22.4
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 12 7,727 19.1
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 23 5,230 12.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 17 4,427 10.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 5 2,661 6.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 17 2,599 6.4
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 5 1,749 4.3
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 5 1,558 3.8
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 3 1,090 2.7
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 1,051 2.6
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 6 801 2.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 708 1.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 586 1.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 488 1.2
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 311 0.8
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 267 0.7
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 228 0.6
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 208 0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 182 0.5
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 2 129 0.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 39 0.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 3 17 0.0
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 186 212,935  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 405,437. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (212,935) include 52.5% 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.