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Chattanooga, TN-GA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

182,854 45,532 309 11,330 5,149 219,987
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
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 77 0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 9 2,178 5.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 7 1,242 3.0
Catholic Church Catholic 8 9,571 22.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 281 0.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 3 1,043 2.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 806 1.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 8 1,053 2.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 71 9,643 23.1
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 25 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 604 1.5
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 17 3,187 7.6
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 63 9,748 23.3
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 14 2,928 7.0
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 11 5,771 13.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 1,422 3.4
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 101 0.2
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 11 0.0
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 866 2.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 1,603 3.8
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 36 0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 22 8,122 19.4
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 8 3,361 8.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 1,116 2.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 19 6,959 16.7
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 199 100,280 239.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 151 0.4
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 504 1.2
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 100 33,701 80.6
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant n.a. 54 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 583 206,444  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 417,935. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (206,444) include 49.4% 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.