Canton-Massillon, OH MSA

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^†
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	488	1.2
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	8	213	0.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	8	2,909	7.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,031	5.2
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	176	0.5
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	8,457	21.5
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	3	365	0.9
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	188	0.5
Catholic Church	Catholic	35	61,640	156.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	443	1.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	5	3,064	7.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	18	9,590	24.3
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,073	2.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,158	2.9
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	3	937	2.4
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,768	4.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	14	2,696	6.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	18	2,875	7.3
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	21	0.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	412	1.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	5	2,518	6.4
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	74	0.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	31	14,648	37.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	146	0.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	4	1,572	4.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,120	2.8
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	8	10,430	26.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	318	0.8
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	166	0.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	4	2,400	6.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	21	0.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,492	3.8
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,325	5.9
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	300	0.8
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	0.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	21	8,940	22.7
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	500	1.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	398	1.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	3	747	1.9
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	25	13,146	33.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	74	29,165	74.0
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	169	0.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	386	191,221

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 394,106. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (191,221) include 48.5% 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.