Birmingham, AL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

358,419	103,638	1,821	46,606	11,283	399,339
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	39	27,405	33.6
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	124	0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	26	21,151	25.9
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	200	0.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	39	10,964	13.5
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	438	0.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,949	2.4
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	75	0.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	319	0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	21	3,633	4.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	75	7,565	9.3
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	4	0.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	115	0.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	19	2,163	2.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	100	13,897	17.1
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,529	3.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	859	1.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,362	2.9
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	8	3,792	4.7
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	569	0.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,807	3.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	446	243,630	298.8
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	117	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	8	1,848	2.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	18	9,474	11.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	1,420	1.7
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	25	0.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	41	13,700	16.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	518	0.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	202	84,775	104.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	n.a.	25	0.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	5	2,076	2.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	2,183	2.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	222	0.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,134	462,948

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 815,286. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (462,948) include 56.8% 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.