Defiance County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

8,090	7,943		9,033	625	13,809
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^†
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	572	14.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	410	10.3
Catholic Church	Catholic	6	9,071	226.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,199	30.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,125	28.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	47	1.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	291	7.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	488	12.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	127	3.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	2,821	70.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	3,327	83.2
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	162	4.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	954	23.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	75	1.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	3	766	19.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	526	13.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	13	5,127	128.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	55	27,113

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 39,987. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (27,113) include 67.8% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.