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Albemarle County, Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

9,583 10,476   2,712 1,037 55,428
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
Catholic Church Catholic -1 -597 -18.0%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +99 n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -82 -60.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -8 -1,448 -61.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -1 +539 216.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant -1 -2 0.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -123 -44.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +121 n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +279 490.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +2 1.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 -73 -28.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -168 -43.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant -3 -7,128 -56.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +197 n.a.
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 -1,096 -74.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 -160 -48.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -820 -19.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +192 31.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 -1,693 -47.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -4 -3,684 -51.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 +286 43.0%
  Totals: -15 -15,359 -39.5%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 95,699; in 2000 it was 79,236. The total population changed -26.9%. The adherent totals for 1980 (39,879) represent 41.7% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (23,808) include 30.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 21 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 21 groups had 38,871 adherents in 1980 and 23,512 adherents in 2000, for a change of -39.5%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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