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Highland County, Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

109 1,078     248 1,101
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
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 11 1,303 443.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 5 330 112.4
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 91 31.0
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 83 28.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 27 9.2
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 20 1,834  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 2,937. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,834) include 62.4% 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.