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Marion County, West Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

6,934 11,632   5,223 509 32,300
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
Catholic Church Catholic 12 6,878 120.1
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 1 27 0.5
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 3,342 58.4
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 549 9.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 119 2.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 10 0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 169 3.0
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 4 141 2.5
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 52 0.9
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 695 12.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 15 2,074 36.2
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 54 0.9
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 4 189 3.3
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 87 1.5
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 50 0.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 48 0.8
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 2 328 5.7
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 23 0.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 17 4,234 74.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 3 556 9.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 246 4.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 488 8.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 3 869 15.2
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 61 7,942 138.7
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox 1 35 0.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 409 7.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 70 1.2
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 146 29,684  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 57,249. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (29,684) include 51.9% 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.