Clearwater County, Minnesota

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,084	2,754		553	1	4,031
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^†
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	415	47.4
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	138	15.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	3	550	62.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	34	3.9
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	136	15.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	184	21.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	11	2,829	322.9
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	122	13.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	361	41.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	25	4,769

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 8,761. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (4,769) include 54.4% 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.