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Williams County, North Dakota

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,367 7,939   4,161 219 4,075
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 Association of Lutheran Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 1,461 69.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 2 530 25.1
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant 4 863 40.8
Catholic Church Catholic 5 3,451 163.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 26 1.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 195 9.2
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America Evangelical Protestant 1 310 14.7
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 102 4.8
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 69 3.3
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 158 7.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 135 6.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 18 7,626 360.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 282 13.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 1 282 13.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 44 2.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 112 5.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 509 24.1
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 1 282 13.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 2 726 34.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 46 17,163  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 21,129. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (17,163) include 81.2% 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.