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Columbiana County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

10,862 20,437   13,174 842 66,760
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 11 12,277 113.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 29 8,729 80.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 27 6,685 61.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 15 4,735 43.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 8 4,228 39.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 9 2,358 21.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 3 1,690 15.6
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 8 1,500 13.9
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 5 943 8.7
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 777 7.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 764 7.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 8 732 6.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 551 5.1
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 453 4.2
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 390 3.6
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 310 2.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 300 2.8
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 4 296 2.7
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 3 256 2.4
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 233 2.2
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 200 1.9
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 2 144 1.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 2 141 1.3
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 1 131 1.2
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 115 1.1
Church of the United Brethren in Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 112 1.0
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant 1 108 1.0
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 1 101 0.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 79 0.7
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 1 79 0.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 72 0.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 48 0.4
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 45 0.4
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 163 49,582  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 108,276. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (49,582) include 45.8% 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.