Tulsa County, Oklahoma

Denominational Groups, 2000

175,037	92,822	712	40,998	11,017	242,713
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	249	0.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	987	2.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	41	12,112	24.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	232	0.5
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	19,000	37.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	23	35,032	69.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	136	0.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	110	0.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	21	7,010	13.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	23	7,929	15.8
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	5	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	7	872	1.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	5	498	1.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	13	536	1.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	8	3,423	6.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,145	6.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	34	9,179	18.2
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	176	0.4
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	137	0.3
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	425	0.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	10	5,156	10.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	275	0.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	8	3,395	6.7
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.1
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	1	8	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	38	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	30	0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	15,262	30.3
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	3,590	7.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	219	0.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	3,131	6.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	1,925	3.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	7	4,258	8.5
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	2	773	1.5
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	30	4,622	9.2
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	259	0.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	16	11,401	22.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	623	1.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	339	0.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,385	2.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	87	111,802	222.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	2,095	4.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	276	0.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	47	60,172	119.6
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	202	0.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	127	0.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	465	332,630

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 503,341. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (332,630) include 66.1% 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.