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	% Change
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+13	-2,305	-36.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+3	+1,560	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+498	n.a.
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+160	44.0%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+10	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+89	32.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+243	n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-208	-32.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-172	-43.0%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-8	-13.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+10,012	64.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+237	250.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-12	-38.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-142	-19.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-435	-37.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	-176	-41.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	+408	21.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+108	12.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-158	-88.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	+307	72.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-1	-194	-7.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+12	20.0%
	Totals:	+20	+9,834	+30.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 74,474; in 2000 it was 90,895. The total population changed 12.0%. The adherent totals for 1980 (32,385) represent 43.5% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (42,826) include 47.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 22 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 22 groups had 32,385 adherents in 1980 and 42,219 adherents in 2000, for a change of 30.4%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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