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Denominational Groups, 2000

121,011 92,027 858 19,242 7,806 295,747
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 +1,156 72.7%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -2 +1,104 44.5%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +557 14.7%
Catholic Church Catholic -1 +7,700 66.7%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +70 30.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +48 17.5%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +199 54.5%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -160 -24.8%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +4 +984 53.3%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -1 -29 -17.9%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 -282 -9.1%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +2 +538 27.1%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 -256 -12.7%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +163 1.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 +336 1.3%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +49 163.3%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 +194 510.5%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,157 65.8%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 +747 37.3%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -147 -20.2%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 0 -69 -35.9%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 +3,876 35.5%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant -1 +1,169 24.1%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +114 102.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +170 13.6%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +9 +7,800 9.4%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -189 -44.4%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 +1,897 5.2%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +9 2.6%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +52 88.1%
  Totals: +14 +28,957 +13.9%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 453,331; in 2000 it was 536,691. The total population changed 18.4%. The adherent totals for 1990 (251,789) represent 55.5% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (240,944) include 44.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 30 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 30 groups had 207,618 adherents in 1990 and 236,575 adherents in 2000, for a change of 13.9%

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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