Spotsylvania County, Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

16,307	7,845		7,514	3,308	55,421
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

2000 Report
1990 Report
1980 Report
1980-2000 Change

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	% Change
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+2	+1,321	195.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+109	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	+781	37.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+748	115.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+3,265	77.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+383	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+159	65.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-21	-54.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-25	-4.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+480	369.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+359	630.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+99	396.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+8	6.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	+513	31.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	-6	-163	-1.0%
	Totals:	0	8,016	+33.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 49,757; in 2000 it was 90,395. The total population changed 18.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (25,468) represent 51.2% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (34,974) include 38.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 15 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 15 groups had 24,157 adherents in 1980 and 32,173 adherents in 2000, for a change of 33.2%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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