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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
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+3,273	2020.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+757	578.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+23	256.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+316	212.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+16	+15,969	200.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+51	121.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+7,364	85.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+10	+3,434	84.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+850	35.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+210	24.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+18,233	20.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+6,597	19.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	+1,757	12.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+523	6.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	+8	4.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+16	2.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+10	-80	-1.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-23	-2,379	-1.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-5	-100	-2.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-192	-7.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-1,101	-8.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-45	-10.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-50	-11.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-3	-2,011	-15.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-20	-14,039	-17.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+3	-3,513	-17.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-2	-4,256	-26.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-20	-16,472	-35.0%
Christian Union	Evangelical Protestant	0	-54	-37.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-18	-9,331	-41.0%
Separate Baptists in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-69	-41.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	-32	-43.0%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-34	-47.0%
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-303	-54.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-125	-57.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+6	-13,082	-67.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-5	-2,320	-70.0%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-128	-76.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+11,471	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+786	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+2	+1,911	n.a.
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+172	n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+202	n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+16	+2,034	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+1	+369	n.a.
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+11	n.a.
Enterprise Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+94	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+10,950	n.a.
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+72	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+215	n.a.
	Totals:	34	17,952	+2.1%

The population of these 13 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 1,726,451; in 2000 it was 1,979,202. The total population changed 8.9%. The adherent totals for 1980 (854,888) represent 49.5% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 50 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 50 groups had 847,131 adherents in 1980 and 865,083 adherents in 2000, for a change of 2.1%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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