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Henrico County, Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

50,003 46,318 40 22,554 2,592 140,793
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 65 59,260 140.8
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 45,718 108.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 44 30,646 72.8
Catholic Church Catholic 16 29,445 70.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 23 18,111 43.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 31 17,113 40.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 22 15,769 37.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 11 3,291 7.8
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 8 3,001 7.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 16 2,633 6.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 5 2,503 6.0
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 4 2,400 5.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 6 2,018 4.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 8 2,018 4.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 3 1,904 4.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 1,744 4.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 1,458 3.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 1,125 2.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 7 1,028 2.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 5 991 2.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 727 1.7
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 3 620 1.5
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 1 606 1.4
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 586 1.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 3 416 1.0
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 235 0.6
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 228 0.5
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 4 201 0.5
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 187 0.4
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 1 174 0.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 2 162 0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 105 0.3
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 90 0.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 75 0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 35 0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 30 0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 1 25 0.1
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 2 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 318 246,678  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 420,937. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (246,678) include 58.6% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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.