Furnas County, Nebraska

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,490	2,347		547		940
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	3	596	91.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	75	11.6
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	114	17.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	3	616	95.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	115	17.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	376	58.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	43	6.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	93	14.3
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	6.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	978	150.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	180	27.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	6.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	257	39.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	8	1,784	275.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	29	5,308

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 6,486. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (5,308) include 81.8% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.