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