Auglaize County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

4,538	12,285		12,250	156	17,382
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^†
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	15	4,903	110.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	7	13,500	302.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	7	5,131	115.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,173	26.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	2,632	59.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	430	9.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	124	2.8
Wayne Trail Missionary Baptist Association	Evangelical Protestant	2	281	6.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	2	392	8.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	229	5.1
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	56	1.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	345	7.7
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	17	0.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	209	4.7
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	105	2.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	1.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	26	0.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	176	4.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	92	2.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	105	2.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	64	29,971

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 44,585. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (29,971) include 67.2% 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.