Ramsey County, North Dakota

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,098	4,709		3,178	8	3,073
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	11	4,513	355.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	5	4,675	368.7
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	294	23.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	3	542	42.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	210	16.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	24	1.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	16	1.3
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	23	1.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	73	5.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	7	0.6
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	5.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	309	24.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	1.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	185	14.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	45	3.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	35	11,015

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 12,681. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (11,015) include 86.9% 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.