Waynesboro County, Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

6,729	2,817		1,318	576	8,080
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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	4	3,177	162.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	7	2,210	113.2
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	1,318	67.5
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	898	46.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	805	41.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	453	23.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	406	20.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	340	17.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	329	16.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	314	16.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	278	14.2
Mennonite; Other Groups	Evangelical Protestant	1	233	11.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	200	10.3
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	146	7.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	123	6.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	90	4.6
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	3.6
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	2.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	32	11,440
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		13,572

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was ; in 2000 it was 19,520. The total population changed %. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (11,440) include 58.6% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (13,572) include 69.5% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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