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	694	2,723,555	479.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	362	117,431	20.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	250	62,420	11.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	221	107,705	18.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	218	66,375	11.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	184	268,210	47.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	139	33,766	5.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	96	18,082	3.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	63	12,243	2.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	63	24,462	4.3
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	61	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	53	n.a.	n.a.
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	45	11,794	2.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	39	n.a.	n.a.
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	38	6,914	1.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	37	6,934	1.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	35	11,806	2.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	30	6,650	1.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	29	2,937	0.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	28	2,535	0.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	28	2,158	0.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	27	2,520	0.4
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	25	5,412	1.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	25	8,425	1.5
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	24	4,120	0.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	21	5,891	1.0
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	19	4,935	0.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	18	12,264	2.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	17	1,525	0.3
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,179	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	15	514	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	15	9,351	1.6
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,038	0.2
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	8	650	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	7	489	0.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	7	731	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	655	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	5	277	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	5	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,102	0.2
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	5	n.a.	n.a.
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,372	0.2
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	4	15,250	2.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	154	0.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	3	144	0.0
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	55	0.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	883	0.2
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	2	1,400	0.3
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,430	0.3
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	144	0.0
Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	166	0.0
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,600	0.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	121	0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	111	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.0
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	27	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	61,109	10.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	3,028	3,631,095

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 5,685,998. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (3,631,095) include 63.9% 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.