Gentry County, Missouri

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,125	1,727		420	189	1,400
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	77	11.2
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	359	52.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	4	798	116.5
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	55	8.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	62	9.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	127	18.6
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	8	1.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	230	33.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	14	2.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,967	433.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	6	1,076	157.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	34	5,773

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 6,848. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (5,773) include 84.3% 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.