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Hamilton County, Tennessee

Denominational Groups, 2000

127,849 36,760 309 9,911 4,437 128,630
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
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 41 0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 5 1,802 6.3
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 750 2.6
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 23,072 80.8
Catholic Church Catholic 5 9,130 32.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 278 1.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 3 802 2.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 881 3.1
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 4 353 1.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 44 8,167 28.6
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 18 0.1
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 8 477 1.7
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 12 0.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 876 3.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 9 1,643 5.8
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 38 6,994 24.5
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 6 1,944 6.8
Duck River and Kindred Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 114 0.4
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 11 5,639 19.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 1,471 5.2
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 170 0.6
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 566 2.0
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 36 0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 350 1.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 6 41,980 147.0
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 3 1,124 3.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 5 1,830 6.4
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 2 299 1.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 14 4,374 15.3
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 11 5,704 20.0
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 2 102 0.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 274 1.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 15 6,991 24.5
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 93 66,257 232.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 220 0.8
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 383 1.3
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 46 24,854 87.0
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 120 0.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 362 220,098  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 285,536. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (220,098) include 77.1% 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.