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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
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +2 +468 1872.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +3,460 346.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant +2 +4,901 159.7%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +553 136.9%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 0 +74 60.2%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,036 55.3%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +5,112 48.7%
Catholic Church Catholic -2 +32,253 28.2%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +683 22.5%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,315 21.4%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +35 19.7%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +515 19.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 +628 16.9%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 0 +26 14.8%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 +7 11.3%
International Pentecostal Church of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +17 10.4%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +2,433 8.7%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 -26 -0.7%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +5 -104 -0.8%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant -6 -1,033 -4.4%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -5 -621 -5.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -681 -6.5%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +2 -485 -7.2%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) Evangelical Protestant 0 -4 -9.8%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 -18 -10.1%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -4 -545 -11.3%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +4 -398 -11.5%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -8 -6,850 -13.4%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -112 -13.5%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -27 -17.1%
Enterprise Baptists Association Evangelical Protestant -1 -78 -17.4%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -22 -18.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -2 -744 -20.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 -4,252 -20.9%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -1 -67 -25.6%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +2 -357 -28.8%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant -2 -436 -29.6%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -75 -35.5%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant -2 -242 -46.3%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant -1 -199 -51.6%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant -3 -1,816 -58.3%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -1 -4,975 -64.8%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -513 -65.7%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 0 0 n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
  Totals: -13 +28,836 +8.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 961,437; in 2000 it was 1,068,978. The total population changed 11.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (402,447) represent 41.9% of the 1990 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 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 44 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 44 groups had 345,895 adherents in 1990 and 374,731 adherents in 2000, for a change of 8.3%

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 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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