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 |
% Change |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
-1 |
-16,419 |
-5.0% |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+5 |
+716 |
19.7% |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+262 |
18.9% |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+50 |
18.7% |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+41 |
56.9% |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+203 |
16.5% |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+4 |
+249 |
113.2% |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+63 |
60.6% |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
+434 |
69.0% |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+60 |
19.8% |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+5 |
+472 |
134.9% |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
0 |
0.0% |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
+6 |
+1,870 |
n.a. |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-56 |
-5.2% |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+427 |
112.1% |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+55 |
1.2% |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
+4 |
-626 |
-29.5% |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
-1,843 |
-21.7% |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
+81 |
270.0% |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
-1,147 |
-9.9% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
-280 |
-3.4% |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
-25 |
-31.6% |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
-38 |
-6.1% |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
-3 |
-1,665 |
-8.0% |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
-493 |
-5.3% |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
0 |
-1,526 |
-62.3% |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese |
Orthodox |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch |
Orthodox |
0 |
-500 |
-62.5% |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
+2 |
+424 |
26.0% |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
-5 |
+5,800 |
42.3% |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
-3 |
-1,352 |
-34.2% |
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Totals:
+13
| -14,763 |
-3.5% |
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The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 709,705; in 2000 it was 750,963. The total population changed 5.8%. The adherent totals for 1990 (431,579) represent 60.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (430,158) include 57.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 30 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 30 groups had 425,200 adherents in 1990 and 410,437 adherents in 2000, for a change of -3.5%
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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