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Appleton-Oshkosh-Neenah, WI MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

53,335 52,964 795 141,238 2,568 107,465
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 53 131,774 418.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 27 31,211 99.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 35 25,202 80.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 18 13,319 42.3
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 22 9,188 29.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 17 8,670 27.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 8 3,315 10.5
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 8 3,112 9.9
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 4 2,376 7.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 4 1,613 5.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 1,600 5.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 850 2.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 771 2.5
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 631 2.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 603 1.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 5 442 1.4
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 3 400 1.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 335 1.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 307 1.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 262 0.8
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 3 249 0.8
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 3 231 0.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 229 0.7
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 228 0.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 210 0.7
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 1 196 0.6
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 182 0.6
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America Evangelical Protestant 1 156 0.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 135 0.4
The Protestant Conference (Lutheran) Evangelical Protestant 1 130 0.4
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 105 0.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 98 0.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 2 94 0.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 2 38 0.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 33 0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 2 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 246 238,295  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 315,121. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (238,295) include 75.6% 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.