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^†
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	701	0.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	15	10,284	2.5
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	1	207	0.1
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	2	876	0.2
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	320	0.1
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	1	300	0.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	69	19,973	4.9
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,111	0.3
Bahá'í	Other Theology	32	3,396	0.8
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	23	0.0
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	99	0.0
Buddhism	Other Theology	15	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	7	n.a.	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	66	271,538	66.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	23	4,022	1.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	28	14,752	3.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	90	32,615	7.9
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	240	0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,578	0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	103	57,169	13.9
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	222	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	29	1,513	0.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	54	22,229	5.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	21	3,629	0.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	109	20,534	5.0
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	443	0.1
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	145	0.0
Coptic Orthodox Church	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	279	0.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	53	43,055	10.5
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	241	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	495	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	52	25,744	6.3
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	180	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	160	0.0
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	758	0.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	3	3,009	0.7
Hindu	Other Theology	10	n.a.	n.a.
Holy Orthodox Church in North America	Orthodox	1	15	0.0
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	17	39,580	9.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	20	31,768	7.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	5	675	0.2
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	5,069	1.2
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	475	0.1
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	55	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,131	0.5
Jain	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Jasper Baptist and Pleasant Valley Baptist Associations	Evangelical Protestant	28	6,516	1.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	34	85,900	20.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	19	5,506	1.3
Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in North America	Orthodox	1	75	0.0
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, American Diocese of the	Orthodox	1	125	0.0
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	115	0.0
Mennonite; Other Groups	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.0
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	302	0.1
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	1	180	0.0
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	23	32,469	7.9
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	91	0.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	306	0.1
New Hope Baptist Association	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,860	0.5
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	26	6,009	1.5
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	86	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	142	0.0
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	240	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	294	0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	121	70,993	17.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	53	12,928	3.1
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	49	n.a.	n.a.
Progressive Primitive Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	112	0.0
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	245	0.1
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	3,028	0.7
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	1	440	0.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	44	18,162	4.4
Sikh	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	791	666,577	162.1
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	21	n.a.	n.a.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	60	0.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	7	1,575	0.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	10	2,090	0.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	436	279,431	68.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	693	0.2
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,462	0.6
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	3,813	0.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,250	0.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	2,660	1,825,766
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		2,555,416

The population of these 20 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 2,959,950; in 2000 it was 4,112,198. The total population changed 38.9%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,825,766) include 44.4% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (2,555,416) include 62.1% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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