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
Catholic Church	Catholic	+10	+136,654	101.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+110	+97,810	17.2%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+5	+46,910	20.2%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+14	+21,262	32.9%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+18,673	48.5%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-4	+13,210	50.1%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+9,816	96.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+18	+7,986	56.1%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	+3	+7,407	100.8%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-9	+7,398	30.4%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+22	+6,633	105.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+2	+6,461	17.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+7	+6,115	31.2%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+2	+5,638	8.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+4,852	36.5%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+17	+3,441	11.8%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+2,748	258.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+2,213	12.1%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,878	163.3%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+1,408	194.7%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+5	+1,169	12.8%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+1,073	36.4%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+675	n.a.
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+674	22.8%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+644	69.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+626	12.8%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+486	63.6%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+163	114.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+153	566.7%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+119	98.3%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+95	23.8%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+69	32.9%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+47	90.4%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-3	+22	1.5%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	0	+16	12.4%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-2	-1.7%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-4	-1.6%
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	-12	-6.3%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-28	-23.5%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+2	-51	-2.4%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-60	-16.9%
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-71	-56.3%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	-3	-119	-42.7%
New Hope Baptist Association	Evangelical Protestant	0	-152	-7.6%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-343	-17.9%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-528	-32.2%
Jasper Baptist and Pleasant Valley Baptist Associations	Evangelical Protestant	-9	-1,910	-22.7%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+256	+411,264	+30.3%

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 adherent totals for 1990 (1,584,239) represent 53.5% of the 1990 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 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 47 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 47 groups had 1,355,149 adherents in 1990 and 1,766,413 adherents in 2000, for a change of 30.3%

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 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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