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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -2 -336 -47.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -1 +1,417 91.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +3 +991 1525.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -3 +31,294 28.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +2,344 1042.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +139 154.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +184 1150.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +36 257.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +2 +705 247.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -133 -70.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +63 25.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +25 6.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -486 -18.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +435 n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +5 -1,691 -5.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +39 244.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +120 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +2,250 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +108 n.a.
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +228 94.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +3,244 27.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 0 -1 0.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant +1 +630 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +3 +360 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -1 -722 -20.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +217 80.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -1 +38 21.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 0 +274 148.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +334 954.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +2 +34 0.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -2 -1,104 -12.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +3 +342 1.0%
  Totals: +24 +41,378 +20.0%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 291,369; in 2000 it was 358,365. The total population changed 13.7%. The adherent totals for 1980 (207,538) represent 71.2% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (250,900) include 70.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 32 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 32 groups had 207,282 adherents in 1980 and 248,660 adherents in 2000, for a change of 20.0%

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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