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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -2 +1,576 29.2%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 0 -33 -22.3%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +3,022 76.4%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +2 -109 -8.7%
Catholic Church Catholic -2 +72,343 93.1%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +401 64.1%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant +1 +200 19.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -2 -202 -3.9%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 +485 31.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +2 +316 51.9%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 -1 -3.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +2 -1,268 -10.9%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -3 -3.9%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +1 -101 -3.8%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -48 -2.5%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -1 -688 -9.9%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 -1,438 -15.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -2 -51 -11.2%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -99 -15.6%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 -1,350 -11.1%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -5 -1,400 -54.9%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +3,750 67.3%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -31 -57.4%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 +15,596 421.1%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 -963 -23.2%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant +5 +1,146 9550.0%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 0 -87 -23.4%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +55 78.6%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 -433 -31.6%
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +43 46.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 -2,441 -18.4%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +2,442 428.4%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -2 -1,994 -32.9%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +3 -681 -13.4%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox 0 -275 -68.8%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +4 0.3%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 +170 8.5%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 -1,867 -24.2%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +104 32.2%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 -355 -53.4%
  Totals: +6 +85,735 +43.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 583,887; in 2000 it was 660,486. The total population changed 13.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (209,096) represent 35.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (301,893) include 45.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 40 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 40 groups had 199,047 adherents in 1990 and 284,782 adherents in 2000, for a change of 43.1%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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