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Foster County, North Dakota

Denominational Groups, 2000

736 1,896   1,032 1 94
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
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 5 1,741 377.6
Catholic Church Catholic 3 1,011 219.3
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 2 359 77.9
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 1 240 52.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 89 19.3
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 181 39.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 323 70.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 127 27.5
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 15 4,071  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 4,611. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (4,071) include 88.3% 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.