Hennepin County, Minnesota

Denominational Groups, 2000

102,418	229,245	4,769	260,611	47,067	472,090
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	126	160,979	155.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	78	215,426	208.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	43	29,149	28.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	35	24,735	24.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	32	8,825	8.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	26	17,903	17.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	23	11,031	10.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	22	15,717	15.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	22	6,727	6.5
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	19	7,582	7.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	14	14,034	13.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	5,935	5.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	11	4,435	4.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	10	4,613	4.5
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,651	2.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	9	4,458	4.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,984	1.9
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	8	5,250	5.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,688	1.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,283	1.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	7	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	7	n.a.	n.a.
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,210	1.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	5,470	5.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	6	2,694	2.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	834	0.8
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	425	0.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	684	0.7
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	641	0.6
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	115	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	1,095	1.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	666	0.7
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	485	0.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	60	0.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	286	0.3
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	897	0.9
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	595	0.6
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	548	0.5
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	7,204	7.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	235	0.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	356	0.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	152	0.2
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	435	0.4
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	949	0.9
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	296	0.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	101	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	0.1
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	0.1
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	0.1
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	126	0.1
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	123	0.1
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	1	270	0.3
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	19,596	19.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	616	591,225

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,032,431. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (591,225) include 57.3% 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.