Wayne County, Michigan

Denominational Groups, 2000

134,434	113,364	17,376	451,069	60,326	1,284,593
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	186	778,340	368.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	62	24,601	11.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	61	36,873	17.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	56	24,474	11.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	44	15,284	7.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	44	28,751	13.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	41	13,211	6.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	40	10,034	4.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	33	26,658	12.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	30	8,783	4.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	26	5,095	2.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	24	12,425	5.9
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,520	1.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,035	1.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	15	7,383	3.5
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	14	2,374	1.1
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	14	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	12	9,625	4.6
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	12	5,432	2.6
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	12	41,873	19.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,224	0.6
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	10	453	0.2
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	9	11,000	5.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,639	0.8
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,083	0.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,711	0.8
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	8	1,631	0.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	7	3,627	1.7
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	644	0.3
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	7	3,737	1.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	793	0.4
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	6	n.a.	n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	5	2,069	1.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	5	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	5	45,296	21.5
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	6,620	3.1
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	4	147	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	68	0.0
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	309	0.2
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	459	0.2
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	204	0.1
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	2	236	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	106	0.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	769	0.4
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	194	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,175	0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	587	0.3
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	2	122	0.1
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	101	0.1
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	1	272	0.1
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	160	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	12	0.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	5,000	2.4
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	1	19	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	33	0.0
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	36	0.0
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	600	0.3
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	402	0.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	219,448	103.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	923	1,367,836

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 2,111,687. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,367,836) include 64.8% 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.