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St. Louis County, Missouri

Denominational Groups, 2000

34,658 25,265 2,752 70,558 10,068 204,888
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 3 1,807 4.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 7 6,160 15.5
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 9 2,128 5.4
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 40 0.1
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 44,995 113.4
Catholic Church Catholic 64 90,846 229.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 110 0.3
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 135 0.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 13 5,276 13.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 1,342 3.4
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 213 0.5
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 4 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 5 465 1.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 536 1.4
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 2 63 0.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 6 1,064 2.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 810 2.0
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 92 0.2
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 11 2,582 6.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 200 0.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 11 6,243 15.7
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 2 2,720 6.9
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 4 175 0.4
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 16 8,599 21.7
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 21 0.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 27 13,027 32.8
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 1 77 0.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 18 3,991 10.1
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 7 1,694 4.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 6 964 2.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 4 2,864 7.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 19 17,631 44.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 558 1.4
United Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 77 0.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 23 7,309 18.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 15 5,880 14.8
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 3 175 0.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 310 230,869  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 396,685. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (230,869) include 58.2% 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.