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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 % Change
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 0 -56 -40.6%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -10 -7,095 -18.2%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox 0 +258 165.4%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 0 +42 27.8%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant -1 +134 17.1%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 0 -245 -70.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +13 -6,401 -26.3%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 +206 29.0%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +8 18.2%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant -1 +1,929 140.0%
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -42 -67.7%
Catholic Church Catholic -3 -11,380 -1.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,304 20.9%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -5 +1,006 5.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +623 6.9%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant -1 -119 -17.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -2 +1,130 43.7%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +9 +3,236 56.5%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -10 -8.5%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -5 -256 -44.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +4 +746 11.6%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -180 -12.9%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -4 +2,061 19.4%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +338 5.4%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant +3 +396 77.5%
Enterprise Baptists Association Evangelical Protestant -1 -26 -15.5%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -2 -2,761 -12.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +4 +737 387.9%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -6 -5,231 -11.3%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +313 67.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -667 -31.9%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -1 -6,285 -69.4%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -6 -12,735 -31.2%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant -2 +953 40.0%
International Pentecostal Church of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +222 124.7%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +67 51.9%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -14 +13,955 19.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -2,677 -6.1%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -4 -532 -32.0%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +10 9.3%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant -1 -621 -40.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant -3 -193 -16.3%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +247 16.8%
Old Missionary Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 0 +1 1.2%
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant +9 -3,478 -41.4%
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox -3 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +3 +390 357.8%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 -6,658 -20.3%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +319 89.1%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant 0 -22 -15.3%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 +148 11.1%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +9 +3,925 261.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,718 25.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant -2 -854 -4.2%
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox +3 n.a. n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -241 -8.7%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -12 -11,973 -19.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -3 -5,020 -5.2%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant -4 -474 -41.7%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +4 1.4%
  Totals: -34 -49,806 -3.3%

The population of these 8 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 2,859,644; in 2000 it was 2,945,831. The total population changed 3.0%. The adherent totals for 1990 (1,665,861) represent 58.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,507,414) include 51.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 58 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 58 groups had 1,493,976 adherents in 1990 and 1,444,170 adherents in 2000, for a change of -3.3%

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 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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