St. Louis County, Missouri

Denominational Groups, 2000

139,084	79,675	1,583	301,064	59,513	435,396
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	104	317,562	319.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	66	57,911	58.3
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
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	34	20,656	20.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	22	5,338	5.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	21	3,122	3.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	17	9,906	10.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	14	7,485	7.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	12	4,564	4.6
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	11	n.a.	n.a.
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,297	2.3
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	11	10,740	10.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	10	3,380	3.4
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,360	1.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	9	3,890	3.9
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	8	938	0.9
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,445	1.5
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,289	1.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	7	588	0.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	6	21,689	21.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	574	0.6
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	842	0.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	995	1.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	2,801	2.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	765	0.8
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	202	0.2
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	145	0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	703	0.7
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	366	0.4
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	62	0.1
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	237	0.2
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	290	0.3
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	263	0.3
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	32	0.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	616	0.6
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	43	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	191	0.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	232	0.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	45,751	46.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	559	623,220

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.