Charleston County, South Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

48,213	49,651	1,204	23,772	9,506	177,623
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
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+8,820	59.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+4,077	442.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-2	+3,283	37.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+2,650	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+1,140	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+920	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+829	7.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+807	131.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+531	64.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+459	31.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+257	170.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+215	76.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+200	179.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+192	15.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+176	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+122	n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+114	70.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+100	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+98	23.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+47	18.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+29	n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-117	-18.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-145	-13.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-145	-60.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+5	-260	-2.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-439	-47.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-516	-71.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-2	-1,308	-18.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-9,004	-20.0%
	Totals:	+26	13,132	+11.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 276,974; in 2000 it was 309,969. The total population changed 5.1%. The adherent totals for 1980 (117,524) represent 42.4% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (132,346) include 42.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 29 groups had 116,002 adherents in 1980 and 129,134 adherents in 2000, for a change of 11.3%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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