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
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+4	+3,988	30.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+612	223.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+193	n.a.
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+720	71.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+58	n.a.
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+25	n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+79	105.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+40	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+260	n.a.
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	-1,139	-45.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+116	36.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+43	108.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-5	-8.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+1,231	n.a.
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+50	1000.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+48	84.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-113	-18.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+230	264.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+33	8.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+295	90.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	0	-32	-84.0%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+405	43.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+392	256.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-693	-33.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-131	-21.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+401	16.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-758	-20.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-99	-17.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-2	+10,771	38.0%
	Totals:	+10	+17,020	+29.3%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 79,988; in 2000 it was 94,719. The total population changed 13.0%. The adherent totals for 1980 (58,161) represent 72.7% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 29 groups had 58,027 adherents in 1980 and 75,047 adherents in 2000, for a change of 29.3%

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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