Wells County, North Dakota

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,095	1,739		1,586		682
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	5	1,983	284.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	4.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	2.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	126	18.1
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	3.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	165	23.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	141	20.2
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	226	32.4
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	394	56.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	410	58.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	11	2,300	329.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	72	10.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	3	286	41.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	38	6,170

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 6,979. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (6,170) include 88.4% 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.