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	% Change
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+651	1302.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+7	+544	6.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+20	+12,024	151.0%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-526	-32.0%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+99	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	+18	+190,971	237.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+2,230	124.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+5,645	62.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+19	+5,094	18.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+240	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+111	8.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+15	+37,864	196.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+29	+1,513	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+37	+15,165	215.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+1,369	61.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+20	+7,112	53.0%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+145	n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-33	-11.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+8	+14,266	50.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+440	800.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+21	+12,127	89.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+180	n.a.
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+85	113.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+3	+3,009	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+17	+39,580	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+20	+31,768	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+645	2150.0%
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+55	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+1,507	242.0%
Jasper Baptist and Pleasant Valley Baptist Associations	Evangelical Protestant	+28	+6,516	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+30	+79,243	1190.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+1,777	48.0%
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	+30	20.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-42	-32.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+306	n.a.
New Hope Baptist Association	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+1,860	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+1	+142	n.a.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+141	142.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+294	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+9	+15,953	29.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+38	+10,637	464.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+245	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+1,087	56.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+25	+15,352	546.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+144	+204,859	44.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+2	+97	7.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	+96	5.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	+84,296	43.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	+2	+333	92.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+3,813	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,064	572.0%
	Totals:	+621	+811,979	+84.7%

The population of these 20 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 2,233,324; in 2000 it was 4,112,198. The total population changed 38.9%. The adherent totals for 1980 (962,524) represent 43.1% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,825,766) include 44.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 51 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 51 groups had 959,104 adherents in 1980 and 1,771,083 adherents in 2000, for a change of 84.7%

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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