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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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 165 0.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 4 2,475 4.7
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses Orthodox 0 52 0.1
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 14 2,628 5.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 6 2,370 4.5
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 41,767 79.1
Catholic Church Catholic 45 151,163 286.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 811 1.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 307 0.6
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 177 0.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 7 822 1.6
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 170 0.3
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 5 168 0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 8 3,182 6.0
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 364 0.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 18 2,474 4.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 11 5,124 9.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 753 1.4
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 68 0.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 26 0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 4 6,600 12.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 3 2,150 4.1
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association Evangelical Protestant 2 167 0.3
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 1,200 2.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 7 1,749 3.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 58 0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 3 231 0.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 15 5,215 9.9
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 3 1,068 2.0
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 2 77 0.2
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 167 0.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 6 1,391 2.6
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 110 102,192 193.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 347 0.7
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 1 243 0.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 52 28,007 53.0
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 60 0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 68 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 355 366,056  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 528,264. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (366,056) include 69.3% 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.