Columbus, OH MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

134,420	195,417	4,334	197,702	30,717	977,567
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	71	136,551	101.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	225	89,638	66.6
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	55,265	41.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	79	39,624	29.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	63	31,009	23.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	64	29,725	22.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	59	19,128	14.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	42	16,999	12.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	12	15,073	11.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	27	14,202	10.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	47	11,266	8.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	19	8,411	6.3
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	7	8,075	6.0
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	10	5,575	4.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	14	5,438	4.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	37	4,937	3.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	15	4,592	3.4
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	33	4,344	3.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	14	4,248	3.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	15	4,223	3.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	19	4,172	3.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	19	4,159	3.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	2,638	2.0
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,308	1.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,299	1.7
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,877	1.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,474	1.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,408	1.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,240	0.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	5	892	0.7
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	797	0.6
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	781	0.6
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	9	690	0.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	631	0.5
Enterprise Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	8	558	0.4
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	455	0.3
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	450	0.3
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	4	392	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	7	314	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	263	0.2
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	221	0.2
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	211	0.2
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	3	177	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	176	0.1
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	1	176	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	158	0.1
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	158	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	163	0.1
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	6	168	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	146	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	120	0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	98	0.1
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	88	0.1
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	75	0.1
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	67	0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	1	41	0.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	44	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	32	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	20	0.0
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	7	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,059	538,512

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,345,450. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (538,512) include 40.0% 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.