Bismarck, ND MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

10,018	25,017	60	38,751	1,333	19,540
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	0	-13	-2.8%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+447	34.6%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-26	-51.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-2	+10,233	35.9%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+15	22.1%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+47	43.9%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+32	123.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+770	167.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+130	31.3%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+17	19.3%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-48	-54.5%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+17	3.5%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+7	2.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+239	1.4%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+41	292.9%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	-25	-8.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+579	25.7%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	0	-51	-89.5%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+49	3.8%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-382	-21.4%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+15	2.5%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+346	380.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-87	-15.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+301	51.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	0	0.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	-841	-37.6%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-500	-14.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+83	75.5%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-163	-25.3%
	Totals:	+3	+11,232	+17.6%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 83,831; in 2000 it was 94,719. The total population changed 13.0%. The adherent totals for 1990 (64,041) represent 76.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (75,179) include 79.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 29 groups had 63,815 adherents in 1990 and 75,047 adherents in 2000, for a change of 17.6%

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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