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^†
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	103	0.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,158	6.7
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,095	3.4
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	21,639	67.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	7	7,904	24.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	168	0.5
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	164	0.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	160	0.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	223	0.7
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	2	117	0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	24	7,330	22.9
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	17	690	2.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	4	1,454	4.5
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	0.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	425	1.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,034	6.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	9	5,985	18.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	6	3,583	11.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,330	4.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,013	6.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	580	1.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	322	1.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	5	334	1.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	17	10,742	33.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	12	3,828	12.0
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	37	0.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	149	0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	530	1.7
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	155	108,668	339.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	217	0.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	63	23,054	72.0
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	512	1.6
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	82	0.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	398	207,720

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 320,167. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (207,720) include 64.9% 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.