Pike County, Missouri

Denominational Groups, 2000

5,528	2,217		1,680	116	8,810
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	87	5.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	3	1,900	108.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	11	1,044	59.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	6	267	15.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	125	7.1
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	1	13	0.7
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	21	1.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	209	11.9
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	637	36.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	26	1,110	63.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	20	4,497	256.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	8	871	49.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	86	10,781

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 17,568. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (10,781) include 61.4% 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.