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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+415	42.8%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+2	-604	-5.1%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-94	-33.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+148	18.5%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-15	-1.7%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-151	-28.2%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+2,624	21.7%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-67	-7.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+234	20.5%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+396	13.6%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-774	-7.7%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-277	-11.4%
Duck River and Kindred Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	0	-130	-59.1%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+145	2.4%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	-645	-41.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+403	71.2%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+42	116.7%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-5	-22,580	-53.3%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+32	290.9%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+64	4.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+103	5.6%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+57	19.1%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-3	-415	-8.9%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,388	23.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+365	133.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+57	0.7%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+4,793	4.6%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-75	-34.1%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-91	-23.8%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-7	-1,003	-3.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+241	162.8%
	Totals:	0	-15,414	-6.0%

The population of these 5 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 424,347; in 2000 it was 465,161. The total population changed 9.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (283,899) represent 66.9% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (245,174) include 52.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 31 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 31 groups had 256,590 adherents in 1990 and 241,176 adherents in 2000, for a change of -6.0%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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