Chippewa County, Wisconsin

Denominational Groups, 2000

5,098	8,052	38	16,595	13	25,399
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 Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	550	10.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	384	7.3
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	68	1.3
Catholic Church	Catholic	14	15,966	304.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	64	1.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	255	4.9
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	13	0.3
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	125	2.4
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	2	135	2.6
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	178	3.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	12	5,170	98.7
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	183	3.5
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,554	48.8
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	545	10.4
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	52	1.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.9
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	275	5.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	9	2,199	42.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,291	24.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	73	30,052

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 52,360. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (30,052) include 57.4% 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.