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Cincinnati-Hamilton, OH-KY-IN CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

263,769 170,234 2,650 410,541 36,859 1,095,149
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
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +2,765 520.7%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +3 +9,366 444.9%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +2,192 176.3%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +528 146.7%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +1 +465 144.9%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +171 58.2%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +7 +2,252 42.7%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +61 39.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +2 +4,127 34.6%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +7 28.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +1,602 10.9%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +93 9.9%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +3 +2,015 5.2%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +431 3.8%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +3 +503 0.5%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 +50 0.2%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 0 -1 -1.4%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 -27 -2.5%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -1 -436 -3.4%
Catholic Church Catholic -14 -15,132 -3.6%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 -340 -3.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -179 -6.4%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +3 -583 -8.2%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -4 -521 -8.5%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -5 -1,011 -8.5%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -6 -9,892 -12.8%
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -6 -13.3%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +1 -2,598 -13.5%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -33 -14.1%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +3 -1,384 -14.7%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 -74 -14.7%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 -2,620 -16.7%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -2 -73 -19.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant -6 -478 -19.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -7 -7,704 -20.1%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -32 -25.6%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -11 -5,809 -29.9%
Enterprise Baptists Association Evangelical Protestant 0 -57 -37.7%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -1 -128 -38.8%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 0 -8 -42.1%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant -2 -457 -52.9%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -80 -66.1%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant -1 -126 -74.6%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 0 +172 n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +2 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
  Totals: -22 -22,989 -2.6%

The population of these 13 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,817,571; in 2000 it was 1,979,202. The total population changed 8.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (965,113) represent 53.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (884,053) include 44.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 44 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 44 groups had 884,566 adherents in 1990 and 861,577 adherents in 2000, for a change of -2.6%

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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