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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 % Change
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant -2 -51 -23.9%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +2 +581 20.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +81 4.4%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 -50 -36.5%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 0 -71 -19.5%
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +18 9.6%
Catholic Church Catholic -1 +18,140 30.6%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +581 131.2%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -1,139 -40.9%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 +978 10.8%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 +159 14.8%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,583 136.7%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 -6 -13.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 0 +149 20.7%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant -1 -449 -25.4%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 -277 -10.9%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 -55 -2.0%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +72 342.9%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +37 9.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -349 -13.9%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -949 -7.2%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +13 8.9%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +2 -867 -55.2%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,630 145.5%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -3 +5,990 59.4%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +181 79.0%
International Pentecostal Church of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +144 86.7%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 -732 -32.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 -286 -19.2%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -8 -889 -38.8%
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -90 -30.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox -1 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +145 188.3%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -1 -2,566 -31.7%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +499 99.8%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -4 -1.1%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 0 -358 -47.9%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -4 -3,416 -26.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +1 -3,189 -12.2%
  Totals: -6 +15,188 +8.8%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 367,585; in 2000 it was 378,098. The total population changed 2.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (181,494) represent 49.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (196,471) include 52.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 38 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 38 groups had 172,383 adherents in 1990 and 187,571 adherents in 2000, for a change of 8.8%

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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