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