Atlanta, GA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

954,666	448,338	5,655	271,538	145,569	2,286,432
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^†
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	179	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,439	1.1
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	8	9,740	4.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	49	7,949	3.6
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,637	0.7
Catholic Church	Catholic	48	80,567	36.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,792	0.8
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	145	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	27	9,107	4.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	71	27,521	12.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,467	0.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	88	19,305	8.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	17	7,064	3.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,260	1.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	89	13,422	6.0
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	312	0.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	45	28,789	12.9
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	55	0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	31	13,617	6.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	632	0.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	75	0.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	624	0.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	4	6,657	3.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	11	3,729	1.7
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	1	150	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	133	0.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	99	0.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	112	55,040	24.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,291	1.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,941	0.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	19	2,810	1.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	647	461,718	206.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	5	1,478	0.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	9	1,994	0.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	438	195,135	87.4
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	360	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	186	0.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,817	962,524

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 2,233,324. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (962,524) include 43.1% 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.