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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	440	264,318	314.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	193	76,176	90.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	101	14,810	17.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	80	11,812	14.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	41	12,595	15.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	37	11,766	14.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	35	41,953	49.9
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	28	1,235	1.5
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	27	3,004	3.6
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	26	21,151	25.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	21	3,390	4.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	21	12,032	14.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	20	1,448	1.7
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,962	3.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	16	4,166	5.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,136	1.4
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	13	7,288	8.7
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	11	9,300	11.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,274	2.7
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	10	414	0.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	10	2,917	3.5
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	9	7,200	8.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	7	1,704	2.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	658	0.8
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	6	267	0.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	1,737	2.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	226	0.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	257	0.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	125	0.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	3	4,720	5.6
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	399	0.5
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	88	0.1
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	41	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	101	0.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	257	0.3
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	92	0.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	318	0.4
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	18	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	18	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	0.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	167	0.2
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	80,266	95.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,241	604,903

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 840,140. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (604,903) include 72.0% 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.