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Le Flore County, Oklahoma

Denominational Groups, 2000

24,378 2,850   185 292 20,404
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
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 53 17,231 398.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 23 3,815 88.2
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 14 905 20.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 13 2,652 61.3
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 10 745 17.2
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 6 483 11.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 393 9.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 5 577 13.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 5 117 2.7
Catholic Church Catholic 3 325 7.5
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 51 1.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 2 392 9.1
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 44 1.0
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 28 0.7
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 288 6.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 13 0.3
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 50 1.2
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 42 1.0
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 24 0.6
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 321 7.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 148 28,496  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 43,270. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (28,496) include 65.9% 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.