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Bernalillo County, New Mexico

Denominational Groups, 2000

60,308 32,275 1,115 191,463 19,268 252,249
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
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +44 48.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +1 +142 36.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +8 +2,113 65.0%
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -51 -60.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +8 +53,611 39.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant +1 +98 6.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -2 -430 -21.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +82 39.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 -427 -64.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +212 138.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +2 +88 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +11 +2,631 44.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -303 -17.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 -4 0.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 +15 6.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,483 144.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -1,003 -17.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +204 104.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +1,595 26.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant -1 -100 -73.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +711 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,500 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +12,000 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +896 173.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +69 133.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +2 +6,363 560.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 -413 -16.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +1 +14 n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 +148 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +2 +200 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 -861 -14.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +139 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +932 797.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +4 +928 70.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +18 -1,833 -8.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +2 +137 21.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -305 -25.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +2 -3,350 -23.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant +1 +95 119.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +87 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +110 74.0%
  Totals: +79 +77,567 +34.8%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 419,700; in 2000 it was 556,678. The total population changed 15.8%. The adherent totals for 1980 (223,181) represent 53.2% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (304,429) include 54.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 41 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 41 groups had 223,037 adherents in 1980 and 300,604 adherents in 2000, for a change of 34.8%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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