Alcorn County, Mississippi

Denominational Groups, 2000

21,066	3,774		284	3	9,431
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^†
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	215	6.8
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,029	32.4
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	1,077	34.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	400	12.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	602	19.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	79	2.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	41	1.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	20	2,254	71.1
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	1.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	80	2.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	141	4.4
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	132	4.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	638	20.1
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	2	98	3.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	98	3.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	31	12,785	403.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	15	3,158	99.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	88	22,881

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 31,722. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (22,881) include 72.1% 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.