Cooper County, Missouri

Denominational Groups, 2000

4,304	2,299		2,930	3	7,134
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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,200	215.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	6	1,007	67.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	5	285	19.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	4	679	45.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	4	3,010	202.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,038	70.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	181	12.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	370	24.9
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	115	7.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	48	3.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	65	4.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	47	3.2
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	150	10.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	2.4
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	82	5.5
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	299	20.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	49	10,611

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 14,835. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (10,611) include 71.5% 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.