Fulton County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

9,461	8,662		8,911	277	14,773
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^†
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	267	6.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	7	5,487	142.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	114	3.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	5	1,669	43.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	677	17.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	209	5.4
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	69	1.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	6	896	23.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	2,379	61.8
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,439	37.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	433	11.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,443	37.5
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,470	64.2
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	289	7.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	2	330	8.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	37	1.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	3	956	24.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	12	4,736	123.0
Wayne Trail Missionary Baptist Association	Evangelical Protestant	1	49	1.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	65	23,949

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 38,498. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (23,949) include 62.2% 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.