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Prince William County, Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

19,194 18,982   39,332 4,687 198,618
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 3 876 3.5
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 6 3,002 12.0
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 11,208 44.8
Catholic Church Catholic 7 28,046 112.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 78 0.3
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 75 0.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 610 2.4
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 4 1,151 4.6
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 54 0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 7 2,886 11.5
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 3 945 3.8
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 552 2.2
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 655 2.6
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 5 3,536 14.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 175 0.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 6 3,457 13.8
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 1,900 7.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 825 3.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 26 0.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 3,689 14.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 808 3.2
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 2 372 1.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 5 2,419 9.7
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 4 485 1.9
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 7 0.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 99 0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 421 1.7
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 19 14,705 58.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 104 0.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 16 12,332 49.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 208 0.8
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 115 95,706  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 250,377. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (95,706) include 38.2% 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.