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	% Change
Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+125	n.a.
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-12	-20,175	-29.0%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	0	+1,917	126.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+57	+10,898	93.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+1,179	29.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-46	+110,875	4.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+2,102	154.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-315	-66.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-5	+1,656	867.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+383	30.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+3,346	500.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+22	+2,712	223.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+993	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+31	+10,787	163.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+21	+3,540	48.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-6	+140	5.0%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	+11	+2,571	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+37	+5,383	211.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+22	+1,421	24.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+5	-36,390	-29.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+230	7.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+670	113.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,286	-5.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+115	21.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+5	-655	-32.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+39	+44,328	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+4,895	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+9,250	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+26	+4,716	12092.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+106	+223,831	601.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+98	2.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+1	-5,165	-53.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+86	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	+5	+3,550	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+5	+966	n.a.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+465	375.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+2	-80	-1.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+743	3910.0%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-640	-60.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+104	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+5	-1,754	-16.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+30	+6,215	79.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+60	+9,677	278.0%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	+1	-1,199	-67.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	-19	-3,621	-13.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-19	-15,638	-12.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-15	-8,719	-13.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-143	-72.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+225	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+262	655.0%
	Totals:	+447	+374,674	+10.9%

The population of these 10 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 5,336,186; in 2000 it was 6,057,826. The total population changed 6.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (3,437,697) represent 64.4% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (3,882,498) include 64.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 50 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 50 groups had 3,423,777 adherents in 1980 and 3,798,451 adherents in 2000, for a change of 10.9%

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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