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	156	485,999	348.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	57	30,321	21.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	44	18,106	13.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	43	23,099	16.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	41	19,764	14.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	39	79,000	56.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	34	14,671	10.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	33	23,833	17.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	24	4,634	3.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	23	9,185	6.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	22	6,983	5.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	20	6,666	4.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	15	6,135	4.4
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	14	20,304	14.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	13	2,392	1.7
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	13	3,257	2.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,042	0.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	10	4,542	3.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	10	3,403	2.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,925	2.1
Buddhism	Other Theology	9	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	7	2,327	1.7
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	7	2,029	1.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,741	1.3
Bahá'í	Other Theology	7	395	0.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,111	0.8
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	6	456	0.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	5	516	0.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	5	864	0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	5	1,603	1.2
Hindu	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	4	160	0.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	713	0.5
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	4	5,400	3.9
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	4	2,337	1.7
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,394	1.0
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	633	0.5
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	254	0.2
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,700	1.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	410	0.3
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	118	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	414	0.3
Jain	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Sikh	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	3,700	2.7
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	2	1,546	1.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	64	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	200	0.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	350	0.3
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	105	0.1
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	1	3,307	2.4
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA (New Gracanica Metropolitanate)	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	1	1,000	0.7
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.0
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	435	0.3
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	1	420	0.3
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	43	0.0
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	1	207	0.2
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	1	200	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	37	0.0
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	199	0.1
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	216	0.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	186	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	110	0.1
National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	565	0.4
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	0.0
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	200	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	5	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	1,000	0.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	66	0.1
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	108	0.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	774	805,196
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		1,110,700

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,412,140; in 2000 it was 1,393,978. The total population changed -1.3%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (805,196) include 57.8% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (1,110,700) include 79.7% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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