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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	681	568,767	192.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	431	232,521	78.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	119	65,355	22.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	103	38,496	13.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	102	18,321	6.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	73	29,174	9.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	66	10,157	3.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	56	134,884	45.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	51	36,594	12.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	45	19,629	6.6
Jasper Baptist and Pleasant Valley Baptist Associations	Evangelical Protestant	37	8,426	2.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	36	14,243	4.8
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	34	1,360	0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	33	13,310	4.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	32	1,491	0.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	31	6,295	2.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	29	24,370	8.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	25	7,345	2.5
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	21	26,370	8.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	20	64,638	21.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,949	1.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,955	1.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	15	4,880	1.7
New Hope Baptist Association	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,012	0.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	11	934	0.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	10	9,115	3.1
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	10	n.a.	n.a.
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,439	0.8
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,150	0.4
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,639	0.6
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,065	0.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	8	2,141	0.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	7	1,918	0.7
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	723	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	5	279	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	764	0.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	4	143	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	420	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	354	0.1
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	451	0.2
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	126	0.0
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	390	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	400	0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	210	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	121	0.0
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	117	0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	48	0.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.0
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	500	0.2
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	129	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	46	0.0
Duck River and Kindred Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.0
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	249	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	96	0.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	1	192	0.1
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	52	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	119	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	223,255	75.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	2,228	1,584,239

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 2,959,950. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,584,239) include 53.5% 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.