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Ashtabula County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

8,340 13,846   18,447 458 61,637
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 12 19,541 195.8
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 2 55 0.6
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 5 1,486 14.9
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 876 8.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 233 2.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 725 7.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 89 0.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 4 375 3.8
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 46 0.5
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 7 1,601 16.0
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 245 2.5
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 250 2.5
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 2 65 0.7
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 400 4.0
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 475 4.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 2 112 1.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 62 0.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 739 7.4
Old Regular Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 30 0.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 58 0.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 142 1.4
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 4 602 6.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 6 2,017 20.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 3 506 5.1
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 4 864 8.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 5 3,040 30.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 10 2,389 23.9
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 10 2,423 24.3
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 27 5,871 58.8
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 303 3.0
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 0 0.0
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 128 45,620  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 99,821. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (45,620) include 45.7% 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.