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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 +2 +1,478 n.a.
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +4 +1,601 262.0%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,874 n.a.
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +14,162 190.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +2 -199 -40.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +702 71.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 -245 -22.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +4 +140 22.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +2 +523 72.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +5 +255 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology -1 +3 0.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -329 -31.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,102 129.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +96 2.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -125 -3.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +4 -2,279 -45.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +2 +648 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,280 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +3 +4,280 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +339 106.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +900 93.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 +1,349 117.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 -103 -9.0%
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province Mainline Protestant 0 -131 -19.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +3 +386 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +2 +488 3.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +304 724.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -1,475 -78.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +920 69.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +6 +4,139 8.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +100 58.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +1 -1,435 -28.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 +1,525 4.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant +1 +52 130.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +23 +6,945 n.a.
  Totals: +71 +39,270 +25.8%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 317,154; in 2000 it was 421,048. The total population changed 21.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (169,031) represent 53.3% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 35 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 35 groups had 152,167 adherents in 1980 and 191,437 adherents in 2000, for a change of 25.8%

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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