Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

77,164	124,160	14,244	485,999	103,629	588,782
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	158	534,785	378.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	59	33,607	23.8
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	50	50,050	35.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	43	21,146	15.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	43	24,098	17.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	43	22,432	15.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	41	28,176	20.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	35	18,110	12.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	26	11,993	8.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	24	5,435	3.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	22	7,438	5.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	17	10,850	7.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,525	2.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,907	1.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	12	4,432	3.1
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	12	n.a.	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	9	556	0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,033	0.7
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	16,476	11.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	7	934	0.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,375	1.7
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	6	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	6	1,947	1.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	735	0.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	6	258	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	5	575	0.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,280	0.9
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	932	0.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	5	1,853	1.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,025	0.7
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	5	420	0.3
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	617	0.4
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	4	n.a.	n.a.
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,467	1.0
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	108	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	597	0.4
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	246	0.2
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	3	142	0.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	226	0.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	2,400	1.7
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	129	0.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	6,660	4.7
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	62	0.0
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	359	0.3
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	126	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	0.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	272	0.2
Enterprise Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	1	65	0.1
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	120	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	1	104	0.1
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	350	0.3
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	33	0.0
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	57	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	86	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	735	0.5
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,364	1.0
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	117,282	83.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	757	942,069

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,412,140. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (942,069) include 66.7% 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.