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	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+897	7.3%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	0	+25	31.6%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+484	51.3%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+69	68.3%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-814	-17.2%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-50	-69.4%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+132	93.6%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	0	+27	25.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-13	-5.6%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-833	-35.3%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-100	-13.7%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-99	-33.4%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	+11	8.4%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-83	-26.8%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+337	293.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-14	-17.7%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-12	-4.7%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	-234	-30.6%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+486	28.8%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-74	-16.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-878	-20.8%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-702	-46.8%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-1,667	-24.9%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	+252	32.4%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-1,572	-18.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+235	42.6%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-1	-150	-75.0%
	Totals:	-5	-4,340	-8.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 108,276; in 2000 it was 112,075. The total population changed 3.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (49,582) represent 45.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (45,315) include 40.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 27 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 27 groups had 48,543 adherents in 1990 and 44,203 adherents in 2000, for a change of -8.9%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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