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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 % Change
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +68,323 36.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +10 +26,252 491.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +10 +10,987 243.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +4 +10,900 n.a.
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +2 +5,337 81.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +4,009 104.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant +1 +2,614 89.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +2,280 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +7 +2,025 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +6 +1,565 49.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +2 +1,338 n.a.
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 +1,108 9.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,015 140.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +967 177.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +728 60.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +3 +623 14.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +5 +502 26.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +498 29.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +431 101.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +376 32.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +283 354.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +265 n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +2 +264 60.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +230 45.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant +1 +187 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 +187 243.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +163 n.a.
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant +1 +117 n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +2 +84 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +46 n.a.
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +21 28.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +3 0.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -9 -2.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 -111 -50.0%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 -148 -22.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -151 -61.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -176 -84.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 -179 -28.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -224 -4.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +1 -237 -19.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -2 -1,367 -61.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -3 -1,660 -28.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 -2,206 -11.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -12 -3,785 -2.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +3 -3,911 -15.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -2 -4,803 -32.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +1 -6,495 -22.0%
  Totals: 56 +118,266 +23.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 941,411; in 2000 it was 1,116,200. The total population changed 8.1%. The adherent totals for 1980 (511,731) represent 54.4% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (644,110) include 57.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 47 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 47 groups had 509,716 adherents in 1980 and 627,982 adherents in 2000, for a change of 23.2%

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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