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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 % Change
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant +1 0 n.a.
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +9 +1,821 17.0%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 0 -14 -28.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +10 +581 24.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 -45 -25.0%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant +1 +161 447.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -18 +9,754 7.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +22 3.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +2,042 34.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +2,515 27.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -81 -38.0%
Christian Union Evangelical Protestant 0 +32 107.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -869 -23.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,508 68.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +4 +160 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +6 +1,797 70.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +8 +1,252 20.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +10 +389 12.0%
Enterprise Baptists Association Evangelical Protestant +4 +371 n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +3 -1,446 -19.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +127 374.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +98 n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -382 -1.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +1 -459 -68.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant -1 -394 -58.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +2,400 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +5 +2,700 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +5 +4,280 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +69 n.a.
International Pentecostal Church of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 +180 n.a.
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +10 +15,238 4209.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 +1,074 51.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant +1 +202 n.a.
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +122 188.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +17 +1,300 n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 +455 n.a.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +207 531.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 -7,135 -31.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +2 +459 1350.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -181 -40.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +333 53.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +554 24.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant -3 +4,896 28.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +45 7.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +1 +2,787 40.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -7 -10,012 -18.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -33 -32.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +4 +4,458 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 -210 -17.0%
  Totals: 86 +43,128 +12.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 869,132; in 2000 it was 1,068,978. The total population changed 11.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (337,903) represent 38.9% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (402,125) include 37.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 49 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 49 groups had 334,803 adherents in 1980 and 377,931 adherents in 2000, for a change of 12.9%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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