Columbus, GA-AL MSA

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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1,092	-15.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+1,968	33.4%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+30	8.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1	0.8%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-63	-64.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+159	10.2%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-72	-31.2%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+140	8.8%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+14	2.2%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+45	2.2%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+244	17.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-212	-35.4%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-450	-60.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	-115	-50.2%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+100	10.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-208	-31.1%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-169	-22.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+11	4.4%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+45	1.7%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+41	22.5%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+344	147.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+194	13.6%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+3,350	5.1%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-8	-16.7%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-32	-42.1%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-9	+1,335	6.6%
	Totals:	-11	+5,600	+4.8%

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 260,860; in 2000 it was 274,624. The total population changed 5.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (150,483) represent 57.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (124,580) include 45.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 26 groups had 116,758 adherents in 1990 and 122,358 adherents in 2000, for a change of 4.8%

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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