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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
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +3 +415 145.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +3 +327 7.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +418 21.1%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 -2,392 -9.7%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +2 -5,611 -19.2%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +423 9.2%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +35 58.3%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 -3,445 -63.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +702 84.2%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +1 +51 3.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +4,336 57.2%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +248 22.6%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -216 -31.6%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +74 11.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -41 -54.7%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 +24 40.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -196 -16.2%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,135 16.9%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -124 -52.8%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 +112 73.7%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +17,566 125.2%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 0 -9 -7.1%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 0 -115 -38.9%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 0 -83 -30.7%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -1,651 -22.9%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -118 -18.4%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 -31 -40.3%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +62 61.4%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -51 -11.7%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -91 -25.6%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 -59 -1.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -3,997 -67.3%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -1 -1,044 -9.5%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -1 -20 -17.4%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology -1 -458 -17.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -2 -427 -33.3%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -2 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 -610 -3.4%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -2 -2,471 -15.7%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -4 +6,689 75.8%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant -4 -1,139 -43.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -4 +45,185 21.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -4 +5,650 107.6%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -6 -8,162 -5.1%
  Totals: -15 +50,891 +9.0%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,032,431; in 2000 it was 1,116,200. The total population changed 8.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (591,225) represent 57.3% of the 1990 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 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 43 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 43 groups had 567,547 adherents in 1990 and 618,438 adherents in 2000, for a change of 9.0%

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 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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