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Billings, MT MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

17,851 16,042 103 22,744 6,091 66,521
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 Association of Lutheran Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 116 1.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 653 5.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 6 3,053 26.9
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 168 1.5
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 139 1.2
Catholic Church Catholic 9 18,277 161.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 652 5.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 2 613 5.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 153 1.4
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 40 0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 112 1.0
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 2 45 0.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 10 3,952 34.8
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America Evangelical Protestant 1 126 1.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 450 4.0
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 307 2.7
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 4 1,183 10.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 104 0.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 11 6,915 61.0
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 9 0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 1,075 9.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 2,219 19.6
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 200 1.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 6 3,086 27.2
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 2 55 0.5
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 3 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 2 915 8.1
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 52 0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 441 3.9
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 12 2,640 23.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 85 0.8
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 7 2,777 24.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 5 2,702 23.8
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 266 2.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 115 53,580  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 113,419. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (53,580) include 47.2% 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.