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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 % Change
Catholic Church Catholic -6 -10,706 -3.0%
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -26 -30.0%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) Evangelical Protestant 0 -28 n.a.
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 0 -427 -12.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +91 30.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant -2 -232 -23.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -57 -49.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +5 +4,114 217.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +10 7.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +6 +568 462.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,058 499.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +33 n.a.
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -2 +139 4.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +4 -148 -3.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -18 -12.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +4 +1,950 n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +4 +3,631 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +8 +5,300 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +6 +2,793 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +4 +264 72.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -4 -3,035 -7.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +3 +316 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +2 +329 n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +10 +4,915 876.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +976 54.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant -4 -2,332 -4.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 -103 -27.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant +6 +3,053 340.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +2 +87 1.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -3 -3,003 -31.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -9 -10,329 -39.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +1 -4,807 -22.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -10 -5,160 -18.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -160 -80.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +1,296 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +10 +2,308 98.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +10 +32,363 220.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +305 62.0%
  Totals: 47 25,328 +4.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 973,896; in 2000 it was 1,016,315. The total population changed 2.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (547,842) represent 56.3% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (580,919) include 57.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 38 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 38 groups had 542,692 adherents in 1980 and 568,020 adherents in 2000, for a change of 4.7%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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