Boston-Worcester-Lawrence-Lowell-Brockton, MA-NH NECMA

Denominational Groups, 2000

151,955	350,841	78,796	2,951,971	348,935	2,175,328
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	727	2,841,096	532.4
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	19	1,937	0.4
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	15	9,351	1.8
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	730	0.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	65	11,693	2.2
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	19	0.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	23	4,110	0.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,368	0.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,275	0.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	13	191	0.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,266	0.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	3	669	0.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	23	1,218	0.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	36	7,460	1.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	36	2,655	0.5
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,549	0.5
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	18	5,816	1.1
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,317	0.6
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	592	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	102	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	552	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	22	6,217	1.2
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	124	0.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	19	0.0
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,064	0.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	31	10,756	2.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	45	7,883	1.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	15	3,484	0.7
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	241	68,919	12.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	4	475	0.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	215	124,849	23.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	61	25,721	4.8
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	21	2,038	0.4
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	506	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	22	9,816	1.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	36	7,469	1.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	371	125,679	23.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	224	68,794	12.9
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	200	0.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	4	1,527	0.3
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	1,799	0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	20	6,604	1.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	74	37,269	7.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	148	28,440	5.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	2,620	3,437,697

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 5,336,186. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (3,437,697) include 64.4% 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.