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	% Change
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	n.a.
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+7	-456	-2.7%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-4	-9.8%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+271	6.5%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-75	-35.5%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	+53	11.6%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+63	35.6%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+2	+61,151	44.8%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-357	-28.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+5,396	127.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-4	+1,031	5.4%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-27	-17.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,128	49.1%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+751	18.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-114	-36.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+7	+2,152	39.6%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	+61	41.8%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+647	5.7%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+279	5.7%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Enterprise Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-92	-16.5%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+2	-761	-9.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+103	85.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+1,982	5.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+125	18.1%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-5,375	-66.6%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-795	-14.3%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-52	-31.9%
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+84	38.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+577	3.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+219	4.8%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-6	-811	-57.6%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	+26	14.8%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	-2	-610	-76.5%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-2,125	-48.9%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-374	-83.1%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+1	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+24	13.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-4,536	-15.3%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+468	1872.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+22	2.8%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+843	133.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-876	-20.7%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	-3	+1,790	5.8%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	-1	+24	2.7%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-1	-810	-5.7%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-13	-10,711	-11.9%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	-4	+4,201	223.8%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-288	-19.5%
	Totals:	-12	+54,222	+11.4%

The population of these 6 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,345,450; in 2000 it was 1,540,157. The total population changed 14.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (538,512) represent 40.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (562,590) include 36.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 48 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 48 groups had 477,132 adherents in 1990 and 531,354 adherents in 2000, for a change of 11.4%

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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