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Richland County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

17,697 19,125 120 12,007 782 79,121
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -195 -20.9%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 0 +136 62.1%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 0 +70 11.1%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,727 401.6%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +870 233.9%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 0 +2 6.9%
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +1,635 15.8%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -95 -6.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -585 -33.6%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +257 32.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 +280 58.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +547 56.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 -6 -13.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology -1 -27 -4.9%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -49 -12.9%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -83 -12.8%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -77 -15.0%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +9 7.4%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -61 -6.1%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +10 16.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -1,637 -19.8%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -26 -15.3%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant -1 +51 77.3%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +70 20.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +575 37.1%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 +91 41.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 -100 -40.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +5 6.4%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +56 4.6%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +6 +240 54.7%
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +146 97.3%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -1,100 -44.3%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +47 51.1%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -1 +22 9.3%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant -1 -92 -6.9%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +10 38.5%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -2 -613 -40.3%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 -898 -13.1%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +480 331.0%
  Totals: +5 +1,692 +3.6%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 126,137; in 2000 it was 128,852. The total population changed 2.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (50,985) represent 40.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (49,731) include 38.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 39 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 39 groups had 47,172 adherents in 1990 and 48,864 adherents in 2000, for a change of 3.6%

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 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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