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Anchorage, AK MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

38,029 13,136 10,717 23,017 11,972 163,412
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 Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 656 3.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 14 2,022 11.6
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 4 556 3.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 79 0.5
Catholic Church Catholic 7 15,175 87.0
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 275 1.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 450 2.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 175 1.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 216 1.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 4 480 2.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 11 4,900 28.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 732 4.2
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 922 5.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 102 0.6
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 1,431 8.2
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 111 0.6
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 34 0.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 7 2,690 15.4
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 240 1.4
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 339 1.9
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 64 0.4
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 287 1.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 1,546 8.9
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 280 1.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 5 1,280 7.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 147 0.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 375 2.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 17 10,264 58.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 206 1.2
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 8 1,980 11.4
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 1 50 0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 342 2.0
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 120 48,406  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 174,431. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (48,406) include 27.8% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.