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Wayne County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

24,520 22,299   8,756 661 55,328
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
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 28 9,119 93.6
Catholic Church Catholic 5 7,611 78.1
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 31 4,967 51.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 11 4,408 45.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 10 4,250 43.6
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 8 3,912 40.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 1,840 18.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 2 1,635 16.8
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 5 1,516 15.6
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 5 1,098 11.3
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 5 1,056 10.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 652 6.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 603 6.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 2 531 5.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 409 4.2
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 382 3.9
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 1 372 3.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 167 1.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 142 1.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 115 1.2
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant 1 100 1.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 99 1.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 70 0.7
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 58 0.6
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 46 0.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 28 0.3
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 137 45,186  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 97,408. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (45,186) include 46.4% 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.