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Auburn-Opelika, AL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

26,575 10,178 27 2,115 912 75,285
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 29 18,477 212.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 12 15,966 183.2
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 7,241 83.1
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 22 6,696 76.8
Catholic Church Catholic 2 1,736 19.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 8 1,386 15.9
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 8 1,068 12.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 2 915 10.5
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 2 766 8.8
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 2 355 4.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 345 4.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 317 3.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 2 195 2.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 192 2.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 2 118 1.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 96 1.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 75 0.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 55 0.6
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 42 0.5
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 36 0.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 34 0.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 106 56,111  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 87,146. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (56,111) include 64.4% 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.