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Denominational Groups, 2000

105,645 18,189 105 23,845 2,653 67,421
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 13 15,218 81.1
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 14 2,039 10.9
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 3 859 4.6
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 4,182 22.3
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 300 1.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 6,397 34.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 48 0.3
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 25 0.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 6 1,013 5.4
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 26 7,971 42.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 165 0.9
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 46 0.3
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 3,650 19.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 6 3,450 18.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 2 72 0.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 4 258 1.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 1,442 7.7
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 64 0.3
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 3 180 1.0
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 140 0.8
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 168 0.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 4 745 4.0
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 37 64,353 343.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 5 1,868 10.0
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 4 1,495 8.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 450 2.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 5 4,240 22.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 14 12,564 67.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 1,416 7.6
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 190 1.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 80 0.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 175 135,088  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 187,547. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (135,088) include 72.0% 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.