Douglas County, Minnesota

Denominational Groups, 2000

4,525	11,371		7,825	11	9,089
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^†
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	19	9,013	323.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,629	94.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	6	6,066	217.9
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	396	14.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	246	8.8
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	110	4.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	1.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	121	4.4
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	1.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	330	11.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	195	7.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	143	5.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	129	4.6
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	68	2.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	643	23.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1	541	19.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	50	20,738

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 27,839. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (20,738) include 74.5% 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.