Roosevelt County, Montana

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,034	2,424		4,453	852	1,857
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^†
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	66	6.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	210	19.1
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	75	6.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	11	2,753	250.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	727	66.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	66	6.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	66	6.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	2.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	8	1,533	139.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	190	17.3
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	3.8
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	59	5.4
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	7.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	7	758	68.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	3	443	40.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	112	10.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	2	108	9.8
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	2.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	47	7,337

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 10,999. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (7,337) include 66.7% 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.