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	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	-115	-19.5%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-22	-46.8%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+291	57.6%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-14	-9.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+92	68.1%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	-6	-13.3%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-87	-13.7%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-45	-28.1%
Enterprise Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	0	+12	11.4%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-59	-44.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	0	+5	2.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	+262	52.8%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+260	113.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+57	4.5%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-68	-23.9%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+44	37.9%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-17	-48.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-61	-18.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	-408	-18.3%
	Totals:	0	+121	+1.6%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 30,954; in 2000 it was 31,069. The total population changed 0.4%. The adherent totals for 1990 (8,276) represent 26.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (8,987) include 28.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 19 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 19 groups had 7,735 adherents in 1990 and 7,856 adherents in 2000, for a change of 1.6%

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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