Alpena County, Michigan

Denominational Groups, 2000

4,712	5,537	225	13,650	265	6,925
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	2	425	13.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	160	5.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	6	13,355	413.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	354	11.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	40	1.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	83	2.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	33	1.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	2	997	30.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	3,738	115.7
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	18	0.6
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	231	7.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	19	0.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	2,454	75.9
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	328	10.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	263	8.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	322	10.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	101	3.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	572	17.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	5	1,130	35.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	37	24,623

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 32,315. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (24,623) include 76.2% 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.