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Greenville County, South Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

146,158 48,564 911 17,684 4,343 161,956
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
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 2 185 0.6
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 14 2,004 7.0
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 2 823 2.9
Catholic Church Catholic 6 7,048 24.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 59 0.2
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 125 0.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 81 0.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 212 0.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 363 1.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 26 4,574 15.9
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 36 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 952 3.3
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 117 0.4
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 264 0.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 11 1,320 4.6
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 9 6,523 22.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 5 2,609 9.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 15 1,715 6.0
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 303 1.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 252 0.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 18 8,749 30.4
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 9 2,710 9.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 1,056 3.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 548 1.9
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 154 102,898 357.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 109 0.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 64 21,695 75.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 357 167,330  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 287,913. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (167,330) include 58.1% 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.