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Sullivan County, Tennessee

Denominational Groups, 2000

51,282 26,184 147 1,950 319 73,166
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 3 1,740 12.1
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 7 955 6.6
Catholic Church Catholic 1 1,534 10.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 18 5,491 38.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 915 6.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 2 233 1.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 3 n.a. n.a.
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 3 265 1.8
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 288 2.0
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 604 4.2
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 4 1,149 8.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 5 1,469 10.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 64 0.4
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 133 0.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 242 1.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 24 6,887 47.8
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 7 867 6.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 328 2.3
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada Evangelical Protestant 1 18 0.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 231 1.6
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 47 30,505 211.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 50 18,220 126.6
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 191 72,138  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 143,968. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (72,138) include 50.1% 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.