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	% Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-2	-1,066	-27.2%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+144	8.1%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-2	-0.3%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-5	-139,259	-40.4%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+277	57.1%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	0	0.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+69	197.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+404	50.6%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+258	25.6%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-53	-77.9%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	0	-3	-0.5%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+219	96.1%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-2,346	-25.6%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+790	41.7%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+116	246.8%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-790	-76.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+395	65.9%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-1	-11,128	-32.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+103	21.3%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+2	-212	-16.1%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+414	289.5%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+467	121.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	+57	15.8%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-644	-22.6%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-2	-1,023	-9.7%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-153	-3.0%
	Totals:	+1	-152,966	-36.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 435,276; in 2000 it was 472,822. The total population changed 8.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (427,177) represent 98.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (273,068) include 57.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 26 groups had 422,768 adherents in 1990 and 269,802 adherents in 2000, for a change of -36.2%

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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