Lucas County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

32,246	62,725	2,955	113,904	9,422	233,802
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^†
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	3,125	6.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	15	4,299	9.3
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	82	0.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,775	3.8
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	44	0.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	190	0.4
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	23,467	50.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	49	88,991	192.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,515	5.4
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	361	0.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	5	1,372	3.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,220	4.8
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	143	0.3
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,325	2.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	4	373	0.8
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	795	1.7
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	112	0.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,100	2.4
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	322	0.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,876	4.1
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	73	0.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	8	5,810	12.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	39	35,165	76.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	273	0.6
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	12	0.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	400	0.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	3,100	6.7
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	411	0.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	4	4,635	10.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	10	3,535	7.7
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	210	0.5
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	1,686	3.7
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	190	0.4
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	255	0.6
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	10	5,054	10.9
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	137	0.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	542	1.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	12	4,311	9.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	475	1.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	13	5,547	12.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	40	17,707	38.3
Wayne Trail Missionary Baptist Association	Evangelical Protestant	1	197	0.4
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	264	0.6
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	6	957	2.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	305	225,551

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 462,361. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (225,551) include 48.8% 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.