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	% Change
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+7,928	18.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+2,577	198.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	-35	-10.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-44	-13.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+44	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+109	22.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+369	51.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+125	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	-644	-44.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-47	-25.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-42	-24.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+20	2.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+158	99.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	-25	-22.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+118	100.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-240	-48.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+61	68.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,644	-19.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-14	-8.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+504	690.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+243	10.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-785	-46.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-180	-80.0%
	Totals:	+17	+8,556	+13.5%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 119,761; in 2000 it was 112,249. The total population changed -3.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (65,825) represent 55.0% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (72,169) include 64.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 23 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 23 groups had 63,233 adherents in 1980 and 71,789 adherents in 2000, for a change of 13.5%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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