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^†
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	10	19,465	6.8
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	7	138	0.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	76	39,022	13.7
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	2	156	0.1
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	151	0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	9	783	0.3
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	350	0.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	62	24,322	8.5
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	7	711	0.3
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	44	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	149,203	52.2
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,378	0.5
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	62	0.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	297	873,802	305.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	30	6,249	2.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	10	754	0.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	60	20,227	7.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	33	8,999	3.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	696	0.2
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	24	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	27	2,587	0.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	32	5,729	2.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	118	0.0
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	13	576	0.2
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	6	344	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	18	6,415	2.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,400	0.5
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	189	0.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	51	10,603	3.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	48	6,204	2.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	511	0.2
Enterprise Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	2	168	0.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	55	22,964	8.0
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	126	0.0
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	624	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	190	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	93	46,488	16.3
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	157	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	6	467	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	14	2,094	0.7
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	6	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	8	9,055	3.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	20	40,825	14.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,384	0.8
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	178	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	129	0.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	62	71,850	25.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	735	0.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	88	44,002	15.4
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,660	0.6
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	108	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	1,552	0.5
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,183	0.4
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,467	0.5
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	85	0.0
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	56	8,400	2.9
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	4	186	0.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	12	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	109	0.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	75	32,834	11.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	4	358	0.1
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	6	0.0
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	144	0.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	6	1,329	0.5
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	33	0.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,504	0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	27	6,882	2.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	73	20,411	7.1
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	11	2,771	1.0
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	33	0.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	135	62,962	22.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	212	96,766	33.8
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,136	0.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	288	0.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,931	1,665,861

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 2,859,644. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,665,861) include 58.3% 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.