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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
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 1,521 24.7
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 26 0.4
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 786 12.8
Catholic Church Catholic 4 7,247 117.6
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 420 6.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 2 994 16.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 240 3.9
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 151 2.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 118 1.9
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 2 62 1.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 338 5.5
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 334 5.4
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 371 6.0
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 144 2.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 65 1.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 513 8.3
Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 180 2.9
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 48 0.8
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 800 13.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 119 1.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 14 8,318 135.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 160 2.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 3 1,080 17.5
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 94 1.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 43 0.7
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 19 10,923 177.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 4 1,185 19.2
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 18 6,221 100.9
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 95 42,501  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 61,633. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (42,501) include 69.0% 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.