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	% Change
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+9	-2,178	-12.4%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+3	-936	-15.9%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+3,562	369.5%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-38	-34.5%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-48	-5.9%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-64	-69.6%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,416	-22.7%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+18	23.4%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,052	-26.4%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+66	11.8%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-509	-23.9%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+210	45.2%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-24	-4.5%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	-676	-26.2%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-5,181	-39.8%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-447	-42.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-78	-44.6%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-3	-1,604	-26.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-2,186	-76.3%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-3	-3,253	-44.5%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-1,194	-70.5%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-5	-1,312	-97.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-6	-3,647	-69.1%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-10	-20,288	-22.3%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-14	-3,999	-46.5%
	Totals:	-44	-46,274	-25.6%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 396,685; in 2000 it was 348,189. The total population changed -12.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (230,869) represent 58.2% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (143,301) include 41.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 25 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 25 groups had 180,423 adherents in 1990 and 134,149 adherents in 2000, for a change of -25.6%

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 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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