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	% Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-1	-244	-9.9%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-726	-27.6%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-788	-33.2%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+5	-3,439	-2.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+191	23.6%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-112	-36.5%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+195	110.2%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-5	+291	35.4%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-51	-30.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-65	-38.7%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	-316	-9.9%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	0	0.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+11	0.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+602	11.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+50	6.6%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-7	-26.9%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+6,725	101.9%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-225	-10.5%
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	0	+22	13.2%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+440	36.7%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-180	-10.3%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-92	-39.8%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-714	-13.7%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-115	-10.8%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+63	37.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+93	6.7%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+14	-7,273	-7.1%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+16	4.6%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-3	+1,436	5.1%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+7	10.3%
	Totals:	+5	-4,205	-1.3%

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 528,264; in 2000 it was 602,894. The total population changed 14.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (366,056) represent 69.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (322,898) include 53.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 30 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 30 groups had 323,566 adherents in 1990 and 319,361 adherents in 2000, for a change of -1.3%

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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