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Charleston, WV MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

24,580 44,051 1,818 10,046 3,039 168,128
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 11 9,431 35.0
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 16 1,208 4.5
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 2 106 0.4
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 7 781 2.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 39 0.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 868 3.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 28 5,298 19.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 13 818 3.0
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 37 8,912 33.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 31 3,174 11.8
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 3 133 0.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 207 0.8
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 7 506 1.9
Primitive Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 8 497 1.8
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 367 1.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 496 1.8
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 9 2,316 8.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 56 26,584 98.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 4 1,167 4.3
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 13 3,433 12.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 4 1,618 6.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 38 10,835 40.2
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 81 20,822 77.2
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant n.a. 20 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 904 3.4
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 419 1.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 56 0.2
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 384 101,015  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 269,595. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (101,015) include 37.5% 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.