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Anniston, AL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

60,965 9,386   816 1,002 40,080
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 5 2,351 20.3
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 5 745 6.4
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 9,694 83.5
Catholic Church Catholic 4 2,192 18.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 32 0.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 271 2.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 367 3.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 40 0.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 13 2,007 17.3
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 4 173 1.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 636 5.5
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 119 1.0
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 17 2,884 24.9
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 174 1.5
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 942 8.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 315 2.7
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 300 2.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 700 6.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 271 2.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 70 0.6
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 0 0.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 8 1,423 12.3
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 181 1.6
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 156 1.3
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada Evangelical Protestant 1 37 0.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 155 1.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 89 49,297 424.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 28 7,917 68.2
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 45 0.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 202 83,494  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 116,034. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (83,494) 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.