Cape Girardeau County, Missouri

Denominational Groups, 2000

22,496	8,876		10,578	268	26,475
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^†
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	34	0.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	759	12.9
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	52	0.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	3	6,623	112.6
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	300	5.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	490	8.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	154	2.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	2	465	7.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	51	0.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	286	4.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	458	7.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	330	5.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	217	3.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	400	6.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	131	2.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	14	7,637	129.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	4	1,372	23.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	279	4.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	44	0.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	17	10,592	180.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	4	1,334	22.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	18	6,040	102.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	83	38,048

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 58,837. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (38,048) include 64.7% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.