McMinn County, Tennessee

Denominational Groups, 2000

29,167	4,968		587	2	14,291
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	9	1,070	25.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	221	5.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	198	4.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,299	31.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	5	599	14.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	1.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,527	36.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	228	5.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	96	2.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	484	11.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	106	2.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	64	22,506	537.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	21	4,559	108.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	127	32,968

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 41,878. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (32,968) include 78.7% 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.