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Oakland County, Michigan

Denominational Groups, 2000

85,448 81,813 11,202 302,201 95,963 617,529
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
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +32,323 12.0%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) Evangelical Protestant 0 +14 16.3%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +2 +705 11.7%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +52 27.5%
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -6 -13.6%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +1 -282 -19.8%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +95 13.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -45 -9.5%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 +25 1.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -2 +274 8.2%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 +1 2.3%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 +59 159.5%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -4 -359 -12.1%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +164 3.4%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -2 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +326 146.8%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -40 -30.8%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,635 137.5%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +152 15.7%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +3 +2,050 410.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +5,930 474.4%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +3 +269 59.5%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +681 2.7%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant -3 -261 -29.7%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +4 +38 5.6%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 -220 -48.1%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,395 179.1%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -181 -9.3%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +2 +493 7.9%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant -2 -871 -87.4%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +151 23.9%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -2 -580 -11.4%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 +62 15.1%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -2,923 -23.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -2 -1,229 -7.9%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +13 41.9%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -517 -16.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 -3,971 -18.6%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -181 -74.2%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -653 -17.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -4 +1,178 4.2%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox 0 -500 -45.5%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +6 +817 25.4%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 +53,957 232.1%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 +158 12.8%
  Totals: +6 +90,198 +19.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,083,592; in 2000 it was 1,194,156. The total population changed 10.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (481,835) represent 44.5% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (576,627) include 48.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 44 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 44 groups had 453,326 adherents in 1990 and 543,524 adherents in 2000, for a change of 19.9%

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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