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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
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +6 -636 -6.0%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant +6 +162 n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +5 +2,169 n.a.
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +5 +807 30.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +4 +133 23.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +4 +16,070 n.a.
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +3 +240 14.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +677 195.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +3 -634 -19.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant +3 +449 n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +3 +3,450 n.a.
International Pentecostal Church of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 +310 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +202 97.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +2 -2,377 -66.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +2,750 n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox +2 +400 n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +1 -222 -58.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +913 50.0%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +93 n.a.
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +11,266 17.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +39 n.a.
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +1 -6,066 -21.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 +210 n.a.
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +91 6.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +222 n.a.
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -13 -6.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +58 6.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -1,289 -44.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +13 38.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 0 +48 6.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -1,144 -34.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 -178 -86.0%
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -263 -56.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -2,099 -15.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -1 -84 -19.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 -350 -22.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant -1 +256 192.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -1 -5,087 -48.0%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant -1 -225 -43.0%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant -1 -83 -49.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant -2 -474 -26.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -5 -5,789 -37.0%
  Totals: 50 +14,015 +7.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 378,823; in 2000 it was 378,098. The total population changed 2.9%. The adherent totals for 1980 (177,222) represent 46.8% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 42 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 42 groups had 176,291 adherents in 1980 and 190,306 adherents in 2000, for a change of 7.9%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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