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Multnomah County, Oregon

Denominational Groups, 2000

69,662 42,365 3,899 150,075 35,892 358,593
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
Catholic Church Catholic 40 91,142 162.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 2 399 0.7
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) Evangelical Protestant 1 142 0.3
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America Evangelical Protestant 1 354 0.6
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 13 3,974 7.1
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 3 1,145 2.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 398 0.7
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 5 800 1.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 17 5,171 9.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 148 0.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 10 3,954 7.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 503 0.9
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 48 0.1
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 112 0.2
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America Evangelical Protestant 1 90 0.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 9 3,209 5.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 10 1,397 2.5
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 28 8,905 15.8
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 93 0.2
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 5 852 1.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 2 224 0.4
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 184 0.3
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 7 1,116 2.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 4 5,287 9.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 58 0.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 12 5,738 10.2
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 101 0.2
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 5 1,313 2.3
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 4 680 1.2
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 189 0.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 3 521 0.9
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada Evangelical Protestant 1 12 0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 13 6,426 11.4
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 14 5,991 10.7
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 617 1.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 15 5,638 10.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 4 2,928 5.2
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 15 8,083 14.4
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Mainline Protestant 1 160 0.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 24 12,278 21.8
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 7 1,705 3.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 252 0.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 30 14,945 26.6
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 11 3,458 6.2
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 30 10,310 18.3
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 1 660 1.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 20 11,477 20.4
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 2,862 5.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 3 1,185 2.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 391 227,234  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 562,640. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (227,234) include 40.4% 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.