Lincoln County, Montana

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,066	1,573		1,824	736	11,638
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	3	1,200	68.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	772	44.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	3	650	37.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	643	36.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	415	23.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	356	20.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	2	349	20.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	300	17.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	287	16.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	194	11.1
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	150	8.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	3	147	8.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	147	8.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	136	7.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	135	7.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	121	6.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	100	5.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	81	4.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	16	0.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	36	6,199

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 17,481. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (6,199) include 35.5% 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.