Biloxi-Gulfport-Pascagoula, MS MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

92,934	31,260	273	57,189	3,212	179,120
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 Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+157	63.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+1,120	23.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-5	-238	-6.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+3	+10,567	23.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+63	28.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-17	-21.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-33	-22.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+327	58.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+74	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+1,048	67.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-211	-30.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+551	33.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+3	-114	-3.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-2	+399	50.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+273	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,200	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-92	-26.0%
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+885	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+250	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-385	-29.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+82	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-994	-30.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+214	33.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-256	-36.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+84	31.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+15,481	28.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+16	89.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-3	-169	-1.0%
	Totals:	+26	+30,282	+19.9%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 300,217; in 2000 it was 363,988. The total population changed 16.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (153,593) represent 51.2% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (184,868) include 50.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 28 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 28 groups had 152,478 adherents in 1980 and 182,760 adherents in 2000, for a change of 19.9%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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