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Henry County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

7,280 8,927   3,697 2 9,304
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 2 121 4.2
Catholic Church Catholic 6 2,817 96.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 168 5.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 133 4.6
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 27 0.9
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 260 8.9
Church of the United Brethren in Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 63 2.2
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 68 2.3
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 151 5.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 11 4,993 171.5
Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 511 17.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 9 5,554 190.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 2 460 15.8
Reformed Church in the United States Evangelical Protestant 1 141 4.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 84 2.9
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 3 426 14.6
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 841 28.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 13 3,800 130.6
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 128 4.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 61 20,746  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 29,108. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (20,746) include 71.3% 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.