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Denominational Groups, 2000

77,088 41,497 774 58,155 14,277 325,138
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
Catholic Church Catholic +2 +10,103 21.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +5 +1,007 32.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 -22 -10.1%
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant -1 -114 -82.6%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +413 74.8%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +630 26.4%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant -1 -57 -12.2%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -2 -127 -47.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +161 61.5%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 0 0.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +2 +203 5.1%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -199 -10.1%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +644 126.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -1 -49 -35.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -4 +13,100 335.9%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -1 +3,800 146.2%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 -242 -24.2%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +250 5.5%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -1 -19 -4.5%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 0 -4 -9.5%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 -145 -74.4%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +495 26.1%
Reformed Church in the United States Evangelical Protestant 0 +28 164.7%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,013 1911.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +490 44.1%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +12 +1,159 5.9%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +279 72.3%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +84 24.4%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 +2,038 110.2%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant +1 -85 -7.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +913 26.5%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +1,301 18.4%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -110 -53.9%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 +313 3.8%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +335 64.2%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -260 -6.5%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +2 -1,094 -9.6%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +5 +3,301 40.3%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +2 0 0.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 +91 30.6%
  Totals: +30 +39,624 +27.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 397,014; in 2000 it was 516,929. The total population changed 30.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (154,624) represent 38.9% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (191,791) include 37.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 40 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 40 groups had 146,170 adherents in 1990 and 185,794 adherents in 2000, for a change of 27.1%

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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