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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+3	0.1%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-103	-9.4%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+9,780	123.7%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+122	72.6%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+49	30.6%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+180	80.7%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-11	-9.4%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+2,019	27.5%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+523	1743.3%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-118	-17.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+405	27.9%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	+6	10.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+915	215.3%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+50	2.5%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+515	8.6%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-28	-0.8%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+4,570	343.6%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+2,955	146.8%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+620	106.9%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+350	108.7%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-150	-44.9%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+3	+2,446	22.8%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-308	-8.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+79	53.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-222	-41.9%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+13	-598	-0.6%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+229	105.5%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	+1,780	7.7%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+565	110.4%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+29	35.4%
	Totals:	+31	+26,652	+14.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 320,167; in 2000 it was 379,616. The total population changed 18.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (207,720) represent 64.9% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (217,660) include 57.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 30 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 30 groups had 185,777 adherents in 1990 and 212,429 adherents in 2000, for a change of 14.3%

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 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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