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Greene County, Missouri

Denominational Groups, 2000

91,084 26,249 111 14,426 3,269 105,252
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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 +104 10.6%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +5 +6,186 51.3%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +21 30.4%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 +29 16.8%
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +3,506 32.1%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -39 -60.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant +1 +189 4.7%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +970 53.2%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -83 -25.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +318 115.2%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -2 -12.5%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 +1 3.2%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +3 +1,090 105.8%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant -1 -14 -37.8%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -139 -11.1%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -68 -1.7%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -22 -11.3%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 +169 9.5%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +113 11.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -6 -25.0%
Fundamental Methodist Conference, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 0 -92 -39.1%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +975 118.2%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -3 -5,171 -64.8%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant -1 +308 211.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +54 22.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +254 10.3%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +2 -200 -19.6%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +84 43.1%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -1 -157 -3.4%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant -1 -127 -67.9%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +199 168.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +127 25.1%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant -1 +5,424 11.6%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -70 -29.5%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 +27 5.5%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +1 -207 -1.6%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +44 110.0%
  Totals: +10 +13,795 +11.6%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 207,949; in 2000 it was 240,391. The total population changed 15.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (120,652) represent 58.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (135,139) include 56.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 37 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 37 groups had 119,228 adherents in 1990 and 133,023 adherents in 2000, for a change of 11.6%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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