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	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	-46	-193,147	-30.0%
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+28	28.0%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+196	n.a.
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-8	-33.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+6,484	67.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-452	-43.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-214	-28.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-4	+339	18.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-81	-9.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-6,088	-79.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-4	+2,298	61.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+322	n.a.
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-202	-56.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-1,186	-47.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-5	-1,705	-17.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+40	n.a.
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-52	-8.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+7,347	n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-1,860	-59.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+7,000	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+11,670	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+39	39.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-10	-17,346	-36.0%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+204	54.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+16	+1,473	n.a.
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+261	18.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+116	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+662	12.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,133	19.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-4,483	-32.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+1,027	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-1,577	-26.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	+2,992	13.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-578	-35.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-7	-11,720	-50.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-26	-11,555	-37.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-43	-49.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	-120	-46.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+2	-1,309	-38.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-17	-23,909	-54.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-4	-1,866	-70.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-7	-7,882	-50.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-11	-13,963	-40.0%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	0	+500	42.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+5	+3,870	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	+1	+600	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+3	+1,197	n.a.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	0	-190	-68.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+5	+2,101	92.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+2	+4,385	109.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-441	-48.0%
	Totals:	-60	-245,693	-25.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 2,337,891; in 2000 it was 2,061,162. The total population changed -2.4%. The adherent totals for 1980 (999,857) represent 42.8% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (776,569) include 37.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 51 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 51 groups had 957,289 adherents in 1980 and 711,596 adherents in 2000, for a change of -25.7%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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