Spartanburg County, South Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

113,361	29,718	420	3,637	2,352	104,303
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	-1,094	-67.2%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+87	42.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+150	4.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+193	316.4%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-31	-34.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-27	-29.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+822	28.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-47	-10.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+756	97.9%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+249	125.1%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+13	1.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+524	21.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	-209	-12.6%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,550	67.4%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+58	17.7%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+120	31.6%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+11	10.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-3,337	-76.1%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+651	11.2%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+304	27.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+171	144.9%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+124	14.8%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+8,481	9.7%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-20	-13.8%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-3	-32	-0.2%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-191	-9.3%
	Totals:	+8	+9,276	+6.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 226,800; in 2000 it was 253,791. The total population changed 11.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (158,501) represent 69.9% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (149,488) include 58.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 26 groups had 139,188 adherents in 1990 and 148,464 adherents in 2000, for a change of 6.7%

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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