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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +1 +1,460 8111.1%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,282 138.0%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,045 126.1%
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +11,289 109.2%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +1 -376 -55.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant +1 +755 80.7%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -228 -20.6%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +2 +511 186.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +2 +207 19.9%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -4 -134 -34.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology -3 -539 -24.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -157 -17.6%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +91 4.9%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +775 15.9%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +165 3.7%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +4 -1,647 -37.1%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +480 60.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +3,480 435.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 +32 5.1%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +514 38.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -3 +1,338 115.1%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 -60 -5.5%
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province Mainline Protestant 0 -85 -13.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 0 +100 35.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -393 -2.3%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +282 440.6%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +232 130.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +621 38.2%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +3 +907 1.7%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +24 9.7%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +3 -188 -4.9%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +1 +2,216 5.3%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +2,494 56.0%
  Totals: +22 +26,493 +16.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 347,420; in 2000 it was 421,048. The total population changed 21.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (205,490) represent 59.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (196,524) include 46.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 33 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 33 groups had 164,204 adherents in 1990 and 190,697 adherents in 2000, for a change of 16.1%

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 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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