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County Membership Report
St. Louis County, Missouri
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
104 |
317,562 |
319.6 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
66 |
57,911 |
58.3 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
45,751 |
46.1 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
47 |
41,026 |
41.3 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
41 |
27,995 |
28.2 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
35 |
24,807 |
25.0 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
6 |
21,689 |
21.8 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
34 |
20,656 |
20.8 |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
10,740 |
10.8 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
17 |
9,906 |
10.0 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
14 |
7,485 |
7.5 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
22 |
5,338 |
5.4 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
12 |
4,564 |
4.6 |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
3,890 |
3.9 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
3,380 |
3.4 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
21 |
3,122 |
3.1 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
2,801 |
2.8 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
2,297 |
2.3 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
1,445 |
1.5 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
1,360 |
1.4 |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
1,289 |
1.3 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
3 |
995 |
1.0 |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
938 |
0.9 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
3 |
842 |
0.9 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
765 |
0.8 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
703 |
0.7 |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
616 |
0.6 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
588 |
0.6 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
574 |
0.6 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
366 |
0.4 |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
290 |
0.3 |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
263 |
0.3 |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
237 |
0.2 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
232 |
0.2 |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
202 |
0.2 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
191 |
0.2 |
| United Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
145 |
0.2 |
| Church of the Lutheran Confession |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
70 |
0.1 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
62 |
0.1 |
| Advent Christian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
43 |
0.0 |
| Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
32 |
0.0 |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
30 |
0.0 |
| Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
22 |
0.0 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
11 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Independent Fundamental Churches of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 559 |
623,220 |
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The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 993,529. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (623,220) include 62.7% 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.
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