Charleston-North Charleston, SC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

91,490	77,590	1,204	33,145	11,508	334,096
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	25	24,079	47.5
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	233	0.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,561	3.1
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	66	0.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	48,527	95.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	113	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	145	0.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,546	3.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	3	368	0.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,236	4.4
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	12	516	1.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,326	2.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,635	5.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	34	0.1
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,600	3.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	5,475	10.8
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	29	2,658	5.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	809	1.6
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	53	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	324	0.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	4	296	0.6
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	30	2,807	5.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	172	0.3
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	59	0.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,054	4.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	101	76,003	149.9
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	141	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	92	0.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	19	1,999	3.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	32	12,798	25.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	20	9,582	18.9
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	50	0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	32	13,540	26.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	235	0.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	106	38,715	76.4
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	7	2,982	5.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	3	4,500	8.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	226	0.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	509	260,595

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 506,875. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (260,595) include 51.4% 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.