Barry County, Missouri

Denominational Groups, 2000

15,567	2,644		2,356	273	13,170
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	8	665	24.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	162	5.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	4	1,460	53.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	196	7.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	904	32.8
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	55	2.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	120	4.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	310	11.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,006	36.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	114	4.1
Fundamental Methodist Conference, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	174	6.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	380	13.8
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	301	10.9
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	95	3.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	361	13.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	122	4.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	31	10,504	381.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	10	1,958	71.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	92	18,887

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 27,547. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (18,887) include 68.6% 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.