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Knox County, Tennessee

Denominational Groups, 2000

161,520 51,499 898 15,367 7,657 145,091
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
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 181 119,776 374.7
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 72 30,885 96.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 34 12,134 38.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 12 9,211 28.8
Catholic Church Catholic 5 8,460 26.5
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 17 3,343 10.5
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 6 2,664 8.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 8 2,255 7.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 16 1,887 5.9
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 6 1,819 5.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 9 1,485 4.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 3 1,025 3.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 4 974 3.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 3 923 2.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 748 2.3
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 697 2.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 4 679 2.1
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 10 634 2.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 513 1.6
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 2 370 1.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 330 1.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 237 0.7
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 1 197 0.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 186 0.6
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 114 0.4
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 59 0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 53 0.2
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 1 50 0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 40 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 411 201,748  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 319,694. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (201,748) include 63.1% 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.