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Metro Area Membership Report
Cleveland-Akron, OH CMSA
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
297 |
873,802 |
305.6 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
212 |
96,766 |
33.8 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
73 |
20,411 |
7.1 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
62 |
71,850 |
25.1 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
62 |
24,322 |
8.5 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
60 |
20,227 |
7.1 |
| Old Order Amish Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
56 |
8,400 |
2.9 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
55 |
22,964 |
8.0 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
51 |
10,603 |
3.7 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
48 |
6,204 |
2.2 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
33 |
8,999 |
3.2 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
32 |
5,729 |
2.0 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
30 |
6,249 |
2.2 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
27 |
6,882 |
2.4 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
27 |
2,587 |
0.9 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
24 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
20 |
40,825 |
14.3 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
18 |
6,415 |
2.2 |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
16 |
1,183 |
0.4 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
15 |
2,384 |
0.8 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
14 |
1,504 |
0.5 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
14 |
2,094 |
0.7 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
13 |
576 |
0.2 |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
13 |
1,660 |
0.6 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
12 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
11 |
2,771 |
1.0 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
754 |
0.3 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
19,465 |
6.8 |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
1,136 |
0.4 |
| Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
783 |
0.3 |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
1,400 |
0.5 |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
9,055 |
3.2 |
| Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
138 |
0.1 |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
711 |
0.3 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
467 |
0.2 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
6 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
344 |
0.1 |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
6 |
1,329 |
0.5 |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
511 |
0.2 |
| Old Regular Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
186 |
0.1 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
358 |
0.1 |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
696 |
0.2 |
| Evangelical Congregational Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
624 |
0.2 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
288 |
0.1 |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
1,467 |
0.5 |
| Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA |
Orthodox |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Missionary Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
108 |
0.0 |
| Church of God General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
118 |
0.0 |
| National Association of Congregational Christian Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
3 |
1,552 |
0.5 |
| Independent Fundamental Churches of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
1,378 |
0.5 |
| American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church |
Orthodox |
2 |
156 |
0.1 |
| Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
189 |
0.1 |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
129 |
0.1 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America |
Orthodox |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
109 |
0.0 |
| Enterprise Baptists Association |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
168 |
0.1 |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
190 |
0.1 |
| Primitive Methodist Church in the USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
144 |
0.1 |
| Church of God (Seventh Day) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
30 |
0.0 |
| Reformed Episcopal Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
33 |
0.0 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
62 |
0.0 |
| Primitive Baptists Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
6 |
0.0 |
| Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
126 |
0.0 |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
1 |
350 |
0.1 |
| United Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
33 |
0.0 |
| Old Missionary Baptists Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
85 |
0.0 |
| International Pentecostal Church of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
178 |
0.1 |
| Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
735 |
0.3 |
| Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
151 |
0.1 |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
157 |
0.1 |
| Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
44 |
0.0 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
149,203 |
52.2 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 1,931 |
1,665,861 |
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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.
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