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Metro Area Membership Report
Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI CMSA
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
% Change |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
+60 |
+267,388 |
8.5% |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
+52 |
+21,252 |
29.5% |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
-25 |
+12,550 |
5.0% |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+8,703 |
239.5% |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+29 |
+7,727 |
56.4% |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
+6 |
+7,514 |
42.6% |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
+18 |
+3,562 |
19.4% |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
+3,322 |
24.6% |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
+8 |
+2,340 |
6.8% |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+2,276 |
5.6% |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+2,231 |
11.7% |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+1,481 |
18.5% |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
-7 |
+1,423 |
9.5% |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+15 |
+1,397 |
56.4% |
| Missionary Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+1,325 |
121.6% |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
-5 |
+1,306 |
57.7% |
| Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+4 |
+943 |
58.3% |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
+7 |
+754 |
28.5% |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+8 |
+461 |
2.1% |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+437 |
10.1% |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+391 |
96.8% |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
+303 |
13.5% |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+268 |
10.4% |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+255 |
5.0% |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+184 |
92.9% |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+115 |
21.1% |
| American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church |
Orthodox |
0 |
+95 |
18.0% |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+92 |
10.6% |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+42 |
28.8% |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+32 |
5.3% |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
+26 |
2.8% |
| Netherlands Reformed Congregations |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+15 |
93.8% |
| Church of God General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+7 |
28.0% |
| Primitive Methodist Church in the USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-8 |
-11.6% |
| Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-11 |
-44.0% |
| Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-20 |
-58.8% |
| Enterprise Baptists Association |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-22 |
-31.0% |
| Cumberland Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-29 |
-35.4% |
| Evangelical Mennonite Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-40 |
-43.5% |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-3 |
-48 |
-3.8% |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-82 |
-4.1% |
| Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-92 |
-12.3% |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
-5 |
-163 |
-18.2% |
| National Association of Congregational Christian Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
-463 |
-14.6% |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
-4 |
-1,196 |
-18.9% |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
-2 |
-1,540 |
-10.8% |
| Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch |
Orthodox |
-2 |
-1,630 |
-85.8% |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
-4 |
-1,709 |
-13.1% |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
-7 |
-2,151 |
-25.1% |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
0 |
-2,365 |
-68.6% |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
-6 |
-3,740 |
-8.1% |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
-4,000 |
-24.5% |
| Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses |
Orthodox |
0 |
-4,726 |
-17.2% |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-6,325 |
-47.7% |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
-11 |
-8,008 |
-7.4% |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
-8,543 |
-10.2% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
-16 |
-8,546 |
-4.8% |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
-5 |
-18,050 |
-10.4% |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
-23 |
-26,412 |
-16.8% |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-78,638 |
-67.9% |
| Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America |
Orthodox |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
+3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America |
Orthodox |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
+1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA |
Orthodox |
+4 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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Totals:
+94
| +171,660 |
+3.7% |
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The population of these 13 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 8,239,820; in 2000 it was 9,157,540. The total population changed 11.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (5,099,325) represent 61.9% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (5,118,438) include 55.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 60 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 60 groups had 4,692,247 adherents in 1990 and 4,863,907 adherents in 2000, for a change of 3.7%
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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