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