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Baton Rouge, LA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

124,543 43,800 200 147,724 6,631 279,996
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 7 956 1.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 3 1,125 2.3
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 8 1,634 3.3
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 8 1,568 3.2
Catholic Church Catholic 40 124,819 252.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 581 1.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 446 0.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 477 1.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 7 1,036 2.1
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 148 0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 9 2,605 5.3
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 383 0.8
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 15 1,731 3.5
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 10 6,520 13.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 626 1.3
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 12 0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 2 154 0.3
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 900 1.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 7 1,953 4.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 14 5,932 12.0
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 2 394 0.8
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 214 0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 4 1,303 2.6
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 100 82,938 167.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 266 0.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 50 26,196 53.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant n.a. 20 0.0
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 305 264,937  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 494,151. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (264,937) include 53.6% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.