Hanover County, Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

24,992	12,444		2,895	866	45,123
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	1,167	23.2
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	331	6.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	235	4.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	964	19.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	158	3.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	139	2.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	15	11,110	220.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	241	4.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	5	1,217	24.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	8	1,929	38.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	186	3.7
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	194	3.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	6	1,118	22.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	15	4,958	98.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	156	3.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	65	24,103

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 50,398. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (24,103) include 47.8% 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.