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Casper, WY MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

8,907 7,001   10,001 3,323 37,301
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 5 8,280 135.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 8 4,316 70.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 6 2,967 48.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 3 2,510 41.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 4 2,104 34.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 3 1,290 21.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 1,101 18.0
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 913 14.9
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 3 629 10.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 619 10.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 600 9.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 526 8.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 478 7.8
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 368 6.0
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 349 5.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 271 4.4
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 1 134 2.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 129 2.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 100 1.6
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 78 1.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 57 0.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 45 0.7
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 39 0.6
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 23 0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 12 0.2
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 3 0.1
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 66 27,941  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 61,226. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (27,941) include 45.6% 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.