Summit County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

59,352	61,330	5,016	121,602	6,126	289,473
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^†
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	2,244	4.4
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	4	66	0.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	13	5,528	10.7
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	1	52	0.1
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	151	0.3
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	5	608	1.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,536	6.9
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	102	0.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	20,567	39.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	43	98,600	191.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	3,169	6.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	175	0.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	15	5,279	10.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	15	4,903	9.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	99	0.2
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	9	999	1.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	6	845	1.6
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.1
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	63	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	1,107	2.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	628	1.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,850	5.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,208	4.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	83	0.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	11	5,852	11.4
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	624	1.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	17	8,154	15.8
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	252	0.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	4	286	0.6
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	970	1.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	12	35,300	68.6
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	675	1.3
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	178	0.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	7	4,680	9.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	12	6,443	12.5
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	33	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	1,193	2.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	310	0.6
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	85	0.2
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	16	8,061	15.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	2	215	0.4
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	6	0.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	341	0.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,087	2.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,053	4.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	520	1.0
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	33	0.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	23	13,785	26.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	47	22,470	43.6
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	422	0.8
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	93	0.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	388	268,050

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 514,990. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (268,050) include 52.0% 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.