Gallia County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

4,685	3,826		474	2	22,082
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	1	589	19.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	47	1.5
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	241	7.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	505	16.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	2	156	5.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	135	4.4
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	1.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	633	20.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	160	5.2
Enterprise Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	2	105	3.4
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	0.5
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	134	4.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	221	7.1
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	2	496	16.0
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	33	1.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	230	7.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	5	1,271	41.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	285	9.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	116	3.8
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	35	1.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	339	11.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	18	2,233	72.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	227	7.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	53	8,276

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 30,954. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (8,276) include 26.7% 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.