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Denominational Groups, 2000

135,700 44,985 670 19,637 6,074 270,375
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
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +324 432.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +149 244.3%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +2,000 95.2%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 0 +76 40.2%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +7 30.4%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +95 27.2%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 +194 22.7%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +430 22.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 0 +512 21.8%
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +3,490 21.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +2 +770 17.9%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 +1,001 17.7%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +390 11.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +115 8.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +192 4.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +2 +218 4.2%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +4 2.2%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +6 +889 0.8%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -2 -0.2%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -2 -1.1%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 -64 -2.9%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +1 -854 -3.1%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -2 -173 -10.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 -95 -11.2%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 -39 -17.3%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -158 -17.9%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 -11 -24.4%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 -375 -28.2%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -1 -40 -29.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 -293 -37.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -40 -37.7%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -4 -2,650 -45.3%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
  Totals: +6 +6,060 +3.1%

The population of these 5 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 415,184; in 2000 it was 477,441. The total population changed 15.0%. The adherent totals for 1990 (243,924) represent 58.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (207,066) include 43.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 32 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 32 groups had 197,130 adherents in 1990 and 203,190 adherents in 2000, for a change of 3.1%

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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