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Comanche County, Oklahoma

Denominational Groups, 2000

47,849 10,846   5,061 1,393 49,847
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 168 1.5
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 15 2,162 19.4
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 7,803 70.0
Catholic Church Catholic 4 4,783 42.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 4 983 8.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 1,424 12.8
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 159 1.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 5 272 2.4
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 43 0.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 966 8.7
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 5 562 5.0
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 17 2,218 19.9
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 2 579 5.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 103 0.9
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 400 3.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 450 4.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 2 328 2.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 706 6.3
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 2 164 1.5
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 4 502 4.5
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 2 152 1.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 4 853 7.7
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 108 1.0
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 118 1.1
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 188 1.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 429 3.9
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 34 41,138 369.0
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 1 163 1.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 22 8,646 77.6
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 144 76,570  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 111,486. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (76,570) include 68.7% 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.