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Catawba County, North Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

45,871 34,198   4,399 1,263 55,954
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
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 2 210 2.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 11 3,022 28.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 715 6.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 3 227 2.2
Catholic Church Catholic 2 1,273 12.1
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 25 0.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 1,086 10.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 299 2.8
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 15 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 615 5.9
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 64 0.6
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 258 2.5
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 930 8.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 27 14,668 139.4
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 54 0.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 5 550 5.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 13 7,661 72.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 6 2,246 21.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 314 3.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 328 3.1
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 47 23,575 224.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 18 0.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 12 3,323 31.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 34 12,990 123.5
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 183 74,466  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 105,208. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (74,466) include 70.8% 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.