Cleveland-Akron, OH CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

216,473	288,945	21,298	862,422	118,276	1,438,417
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	302	1,035,151	352.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	212	115,883	39.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	142	69,550	23.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	116	58,482	19.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	95	52,807	18.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	87	48,473	16.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	75	40,467	13.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	69	38,512	13.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	63	19,788	6.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	61	25,459	8.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	49	11,262	3.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	48	13,744	4.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	47	6,770	2.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	42	4,679	1.6
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	42	6,797	2.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	34	9,195	3.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	26	5,538	1.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	25	9,630	3.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	21	21,216	7.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	21	5,458	1.9
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	16	5,235	1.8
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	13	770	0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	12	4,342	1.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	12	1,018	0.4
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	10	19,465	6.6
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,506	0.5
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,838	0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	9	2,870	1.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,528	0.5
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	8	700	0.2
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	6	864	0.3
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	6	1,783	0.6
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	799	0.3
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	768	0.3
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,398	0.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	756	0.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	250	0.1
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	196	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	228	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	668	0.2
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	251	0.1
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	217	0.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	403	0.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	425	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	456	0.2
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	57	0.0
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	158	0.1
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	130	0.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	60	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	48	0.0
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	126	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	100	0.0
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	0.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	937	0.3
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	19	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,749	1,649,330

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 2,938,277. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,649,330) include 56.1% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.