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Franklin County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

95,036 128,878 4,270 146,767 27,174 666,853
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 54 114,514 119.1
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 51,677 53.8
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 91 51,135 53.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 46 27,887 29.0
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 42 23,408 24.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 34 20,365 21.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 25 12,851 13.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 30 12,434 12.9
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 11 10,488 10.9
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 12 10,430 10.9
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 6 7,675 8.0
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 12 6,783 7.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 25 6,131 6.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 9 4,825 5.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 10 3,721 3.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 23 3,645 3.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 10 3,603 3.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 12 3,452 3.6
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 20 3,116 3.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 10 3,068 3.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 10 3,031 3.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 8 2,674 2.8
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 3 2,638 2.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 9 1,875 2.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 5 1,474 1.5
Church of the United Brethren in Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 1,277 1.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 6 1,240 1.3
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 5 998 1.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 832 0.9
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 781 0.8
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 5 523 0.5
Enterprise Baptists Association Evangelical Protestant 5 449 0.5
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 4 404 0.4
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 2 386 0.4
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 3 262 0.3
United Baptists Evangelical Protestant 3 246 0.3
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 211 0.2
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 4 178 0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 2 178 0.2
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 1 176 0.2
International Pentecostal Church of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 163 0.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 158 0.2
Evangelical Congregational Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 158 0.2
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 2 123 0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 120 0.1
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 105 0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 98 0.1
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 2 88 0.1
Old Regular Baptists Evangelical Protestant 2 75 0.1
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 67 0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 62 0.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 44 0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 1 41 0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada Evangelical Protestant 1 32 0.0
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 27 0.0
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 25 0.0
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 20 0.0
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 4 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 598 402,447  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 961,437. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (402,447) include 41.9% 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.