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Burleigh County, North Dakota

Denominational Groups, 2000

7,755 19,875 60 25,240 1,069 15,417
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 459 7.6
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 2 1,004 16.7
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant 1 51 0.9
Catholic Church Catholic 8 17,179 285.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 68 1.1
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 107 1.8
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 26 0.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 461 7.7
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America Evangelical Protestant 1 200 3.3
Church of the Lutheran Confession Evangelical Protestant 1 26 0.4
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 96 1.6
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 88 1.5
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 42 0.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 461 7.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 310 5.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 12 14,000 232.8
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 14 0.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 285 4.7
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 0 0.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 1,526 25.4
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 1 57 1.0
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 1,057 17.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 2 1,273 21.2
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 607 10.1
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 91 1.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 469 7.8
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 152 2.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 59 1.0
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 501 8.3
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 6 2,788 46.4
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 110 1.8
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 279 4.6
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 63 43,846  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 60,131. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (43,846) include 72.9% 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.