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Santa Fe County, New Mexico

Denominational Groups, 2000

5,207 4,426 90 50,675 3,579 65,315
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
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 643 6.5
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 165 1.7
Catholic Church Catholic 26 33,750 341.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 99 1.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 113 1.1
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 30 0.3
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 13 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 3 1,240 12.5
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 58 0.6
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 244 2.5
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 2 997 10.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 320 3.2
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 77 0.8
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 600 6.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 400 4.0
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 900 9.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 362 3.7
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 2 1,212 12.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 88 0.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 154 1.6
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 7 3,598 36.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 258 2.6
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 1 208 2.1
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 3 2,320 23.5
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 74 47,849  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 98,928. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (47,849) include 48.4% 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.