Mathews County, Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,626	2,956		1,139	1	3,485
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	10	2,223	266.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,386	166.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	434	52.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	332	39.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	174	20.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	141	16.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	138	16.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	85	10.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	8.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	23	4,980

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 8,348. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (4,980) include 59.7% 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.