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^†
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	399	0.7
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	631	1.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	18	5,403	9.3
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	148	0.3
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	98	0.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	15	3,956	6.8
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,246	2.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	6,767	11.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	42	77,732	133.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	626	1.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	5	815	1.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	4	1,046	1.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	14	5,245	9.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	399	0.7
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	7	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,542	2.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	609	1.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	94	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	33	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	24	11,657	20.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	76	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	59	0.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,657	4.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,903	3.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	27	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	0.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	16	6,930	11.9
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	130	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	165	0.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	23	9,590	16.4
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	47	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	108	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	8	457	0.8
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	6	635	1.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	12,200	20.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,550	4.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	8	5,569	9.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	0.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	7	3,704	6.3
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	166	0.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	12	4,147	7.1
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	12	0.0
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	372	0.6
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,369	2.3
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	92	0.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	31	13,291	22.8
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	29	0.1
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	0.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	570	1.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	12	6,053	10.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	20	5,099	8.7
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	400	0.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	1,305	2.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	8	1,995	3.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	28	7,716	13.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	323	0.6
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	665	1.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	442	209,096

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 583,887. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (209,096) include 35.8% 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.