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Denominational Groups, 2000

85,123 26,840   7,865 4,752 150,044
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 11 3,332 12.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 872 3.3
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 25 7,273 27.9
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 81 0.3
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 28,996 111.2
Catholic Church Catholic 8 5,897 22.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 2 368 1.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 120 0.5
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 98 0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 8 1,554 6.0
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 5 231 0.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 5 1,583 6.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 639 2.5
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 18 2,060 7.9
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 1 232 0.9
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 5 1,409 5.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 599 2.3
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 750 2.9
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 229 0.9
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 1,000 3.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 668 2.6
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 7 767 2.9
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 5 251 1.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 10 2,638 10.1
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 3 182 0.7
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 6 212 0.8
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 234 0.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 7 1,425 5.5
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 96 66,334 254.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 48 0.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 76 0.3
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 54 20,325 77.9
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 299 150,483  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 260,860. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (150,483) include 57.7% 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.