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Medina County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

12,578 20,112 177 27,198 596 90,434
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
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 18 7,405 60.5
Catholic Church Catholic 10 31,323 256.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 10 5,711 46.7
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 9 3,748 30.6
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 6 900 7.4
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 5 1,019 8.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 4 1,754 14.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 2,176 17.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 880 7.2
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 285 2.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 3 440 3.6
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 749 6.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 551 4.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 1,200 9.8
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 193 1.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 570 4.7
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 65 0.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 230 1.9
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 2 248 2.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 375 3.1
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 64 0.5
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 46 0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 353 2.9
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 1 14 0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 1 33 0.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 74 0.6
Old Regular Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 107 0.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 47 0.4
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 105 0.9
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 47 0.4
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 86 0.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 85 0.7
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 80 0.7
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 397 3.2
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 4,550 37.2
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 297 2.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 112 66,207  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 122,354. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (66,207) include 54.1% 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.