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Denominational Groups, 2000

23,913 94,127 5,352 342,121 24,936 385,134
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 138 324,752 377.0
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 121 42,127 48.9
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 65 19,578 22.7
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 21 17,879 20.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 41 16,681 19.4
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 43 13,242 15.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 46 11,510 13.4
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 7,680 8.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 34 6,960 8.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 11 5,046 5.9
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 6 4,381 5.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 7 2,383 2.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 18 2,058 2.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 12 1,843 2.1
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 14 1,732 2.0
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 4 1,520 1.8
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 4 1,405 1.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 3 1,208 1.4
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 8 1,007 1.2
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 3 821 1.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 7 782 0.9
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 3 708 0.8
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 1 600 0.7
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 3 607 0.7
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 579 0.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 453 0.5
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 5 440 0.5
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 2 435 0.5
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 5 321 0.4
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 205 0.2
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 3 199 0.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 4 200 0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 156 0.2
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 1 150 0.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada Evangelical Protestant 2 126 0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 2 122 0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 2 124 0.1
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 90 0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 3 82 0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 90 0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 78 0.1
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Mainline Protestant 1 57 0.1
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 3 64 0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 47 0.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 37 0.0
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 1 29 0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 6 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 3 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 3 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 3 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 680 490,594  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 861,424. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (490,594) include 57.0% 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.