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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 % Change
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 0 -38 -57.6%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 -1,810 -32.7%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox 0 +155 298.1%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant -1 -41 -6.7%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 0 -280 -7.9%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -4 -3.9%
Catholic Church Catholic -3 +23,002 23.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +246 7.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -2 +217 4.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 -21 -0.4%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +64 64.6%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -2 +1,156 115.7%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +366 43.3%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 -5 -11.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +2 +363 32.8%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -96 -15.3%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 +355 12.5%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -51 -2.3%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -1 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -46 -55.4%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +72 1.2%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +125 n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -3 -1,242 -15.2%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +215 85.3%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant -1 -6 -2.1%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +100 10.3%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -6 -13,350 -37.8%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant -1 -472 -69.9%
International Pentecostal Church of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +222 124.7%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -3 -680 -14.5%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -800 -12.4%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 0 +17 51.5%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -448 -37.6%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 0 -158 -51.0%
Old Missionary Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 0 +1 1.2%
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox -1 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -2,236 -27.7%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +230 107.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +519 152.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +146 13.4%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant -1 -470 -22.9%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -134 -25.8%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -2 -2,637 -19.1%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -2 -1,387 -6.2%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -256 -60.7%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -3 -3.2%
  Totals: -25 +900 +.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 514,990; in 2000 it was 542,899. The total population changed 5.4%. The adherent totals for 1990 (268,050) represent 52.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (253,426) include 46.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 44 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 44 groups had 244,165 adherents in 1990 and 245,065 adherents in 2000, for a change of .4%

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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