Geauga County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

7,672	9,082		25,548	524	48,069
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^†
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	1	17	0.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	477	5.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	585	7.2
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	44	0.5
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	369	4.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	8	17,477	215.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	63	0.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	573	7.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	438	5.4
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	4	1,194	14.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	20	0.3
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	98	1.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	224	2.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	655	8.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	2,600	32.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	739	9.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	459	5.7
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	50	7,500	92.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	1,020	12.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	257	3.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	2	504	6.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	9	3,278	40.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	6	2,087	25.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	106	40,705

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 81,129. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (40,705) include 50.2% 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.