Holmes County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

14,881	2,541		524		20,997
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^†
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	75	11,250	342.5
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	18	2,978	90.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,700	82.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	7	1,357	41.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	5	1,019	31.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	477	14.5
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	451	13.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	315	9.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	274	8.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	173	5.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	71	2.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	2.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	2.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	66	2.0
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	130	21,271

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 32,849. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (21,271) include 64.8% 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.