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Sweetwater County, Wyoming

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,670 1,519   10,095 5,903 16,426
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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -139 -67.1%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 0 -294 -49.3%
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +1,788 21.5%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -26 -16.6%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +21 25.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 -458 -7.2%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -70 -40.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +24 10.8%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -240 -39.5%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +235 167.9%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -75 -20.1%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -47 -7.8%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -22 -21.8%
Reformed Church in the United States Evangelical Protestant 0 0 0.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -38 -35.2%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 0 -498 -23.1%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -335 -40.4%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +1 -139 -39.5%
  Totals: +3 -313 -1.5%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 38,823; in 2000 it was 37,613. The total population changed -3.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (21,410) represent 55.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (21,187) include 56.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 18 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 18 groups had 21,391 adherents in 1990 and 21,078 adherents in 2000, for a change of -1.5%

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 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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