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
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	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.