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Norfolk County, Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

31,895 29,208 2,591 11,059 9,822 149,828
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 13 14,252 29.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 14 7,975 16.4
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 6 1,365 2.8
Catholic Church Catholic 13 16,308 33.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 1,507 3.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 15 2,724 5.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 16 3,230 6.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 426 0.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 9 1,098 2.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 2,071 4.3
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 420 0.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 778 1.6
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 18 10,697 22.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 9 3,768 7.8
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 9 1,245 2.6
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 5 2,772 5.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 1,516 3.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 28 8,970 18.5
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 2 500 1.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 1,317 2.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 4 1,075 2.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 67 59,116 121.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 133 0.3
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 15 3,095 6.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 44 27,827 57.3
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 1 60 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 311 174,245  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 486,042. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (174,245) include 35.8% 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.