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Guilford County, North Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

84,662 81,243 648 21,628 8,343 224,524
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 8 16,014 50.5
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 6 610 1.9
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Catholic Church Catholic 7 7,466 23.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 498 1.6
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 650 2.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 4 988 3.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 1,125 3.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 645 2.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 9 725 2.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 1,707 5.4
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 8 1,065 3.4
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 857 2.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 9 5,553 17.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 11 4,707 14.8
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 200 0.6
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 17 5,077 16.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 321 1.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 8 967 3.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 4 1,151 3.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 6 1,132 3.6
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province Mainline Protestant 2 700 2.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 27 15,970 50.4
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 42 0.1
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 1,885 5.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 1,328 4.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 73 49,600 156.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 171 0.5
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 16 5,063 16.0
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 82 42,774 134.9
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant n.a. 40 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 329 169,031  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 317,154. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (169,031) include 53.3% 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.