Worcester 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 |
Adherence Rate† |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
133 |
325,686 |
458.9 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
77 |
20,753 |
29.2 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
23 |
13,700 |
19.3 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
30 |
11,639 |
16.4 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
36 |
9,228 |
13.0 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
30 |
8,484 |
12.0 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
16 |
8,287 |
11.7 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
16 |
4,523 |
6.4 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
28 |
3,957 |
5.6 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
20 |
3,639 |
5.1 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
3,630 |
5.1 |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
2 |
2,450 |
3.5 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
2,120 |
3.0 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
4 |
1,632 |
2.3 |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
1,550 |
2.2 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
1,418 |
2.0 |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
1,387 |
2.0 |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
1,229 |
1.7 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
1,076 |
1.5 |
| Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch |
Orthodox |
1 |
800 |
1.1 |
| Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) |
Mainline Protestant |
2 |
712 |
1.0 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
629 |
0.9 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
3 |
625 |
0.9 |
| Apostolic Lutheran Church of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
400 |
0.6 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
381 |
0.5 |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
350 |
0.5 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
303 |
0.4 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
267 |
0.4 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
220 |
0.3 |
| Advent Christian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
219 |
0.3 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
104 |
0.2 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
79 |
0.1 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
72 |
0.1 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
30 |
0.0 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
0 |
0.0 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese |
Orthodox |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
5 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
6 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 506 |
431,579 |
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The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 709,705. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (431,579) include 60.8% 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.
