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Stark County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

51,175 58,951 5,802 77,490 3,053 181,627
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
Catholic Church Catholic 29 66,224 174.8
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 58 29,112 76.9
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 26 15,519 41.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 27 14,346 37.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 12 10,710 28.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 14 10,621 28.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 8 3,609 9.5
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 11 3,407 9.0
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 13 3,394 9.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 4 2,933 7.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 5 2,683 7.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 8 1,828 4.8
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 10 1,793 4.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 7 1,687 4.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 1,556 4.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 1,409 3.7
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 3 941 2.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 822 2.2
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 572 1.5
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 4 519 1.4
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 488 1.3
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 3 473 1.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 435 1.2
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 381 1.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 347 0.9
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 300 0.8
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 3 219 0.6
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 2 208 0.6
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 206 0.5
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 170 0.5
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 4 133 0.4
Evangelical Congregational Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 118 0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 34 0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 25 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 274 177,222  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 378,823. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (177,222) include 46.8% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.