Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

593,687	588,253	97,586	3,422,342	416,570	4,039,102
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	588	3,154,954	382.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	362	156,787	19.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	320	179,523	21.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	273	174,251	21.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	218	71,993	8.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	214	107,717	13.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	182	83,665	10.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	169	252,850	30.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	143	40,704	4.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	136	46,295	5.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	103	16,349	2.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	95	34,527	4.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	90	15,031	1.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	87	22,420	2.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	74	17,636	2.1
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	70	n.a.	n.a.
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	67	13,487	1.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	60	8,013	1.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	59	13,700	1.7
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	52	19,028	2.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	44	18,394	2.2
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	43	n.a.	n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	43	5,083	0.6
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	37	14,297	1.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	36	4,332	0.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	35	8,577	1.0
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	33	3,852	0.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	33	13,039	1.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	31	3,634	0.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	29	115,865	14.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	28	n.a.	n.a.
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	28	2,264	0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	28	6,338	0.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	25	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	19	898	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	17	1,267	0.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,642	0.3
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	15	3,165	0.4
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	14	26,765	3.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	14	2,248	0.3
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	13	2,576	0.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	13	2,479	0.3
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	12	n.a.	n.a.
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	12	925	0.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	11	13,250	1.6
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,022	0.3
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	9	604	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	7	544	0.1
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,090	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	146	0.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	404	0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	1,320	0.2
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,045	0.1
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	4	27,511	3.3
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	783	0.1
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,618	0.2
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	3	1,900	0.2
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	3	245	0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	402	0.1
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	3	528	0.1
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	3	747	0.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	82	0.0
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	2	397	0.1
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	12	0.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	868	0.1
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	193	0.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	2	3,450	0.4
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	65	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
Enterprise Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	1	71	0.0
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	1,119	0.1
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	1	16	0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	97	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	198	0.0
Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Byelorussion Council Of Orthodox Churches In North America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	92	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	276	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	34	0.0
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	69	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	370,507	45.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	4,102	5,099,325

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 8,239,820. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (5,099,325) include 61.9% 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.