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Denominational Groups, 2000

52,740 64,147 5,856 79,384 3,054 201,753
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 34 68,216 168.7
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 77 32,431 80.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 32 15,838 39.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 26 15,519 38.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 22 11,926 29.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 14 11,498 28.4
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 16 3,649 9.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 8 3,609 8.9
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 13 3,549 8.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 5 3,256 8.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 5 2,683 6.6
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 9 1,913 4.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 8 1,828 4.5
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 10 1,793 4.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 1,556 3.9
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 1,409 3.5
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 3 941 2.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 822 2.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 5 631 1.6
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 572 1.4
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 4 519 1.3
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 488 1.2
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 3 473 1.2
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 381 0.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 347 0.9
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 300 0.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 3 228 0.6
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 3 219 0.5
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 206 0.5
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 170 0.4
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 4 133 0.3
Evangelical Congregational Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 118 0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 34 0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 25 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 324 187,280  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 404,421. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (187,280) include 46.3% 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.