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
Catholic Church	Catholic	-21	+34,593	21.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+10	+15,210	3457.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+9,661	42.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+6,078	n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+4,865	32.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+4,780	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+13	+3,850	103.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+2,700	n.a.
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	+2,616	24.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+2,400	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+29	+2,219	n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+2,139	28.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+2,099	74.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+1,574	15.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+17	+1,458	49.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+11	+1,117	7.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+916	24.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+14	+619	14.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+545	20.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+2	+519	n.a.
Enterprise Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+466	n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+459	1350.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+381	35.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+354	79.0%
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+305	n.a.
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+277	815.0%
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+253	649.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+223	n.a.
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	+1	+202	n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+200	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+200	n.a.
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	+186	58.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+185	25.0%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+125	109.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	+122	188.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+116	128.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+3	+68	9.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+50	135.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+35	46.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+22	3.0%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	+1	0	n.a.
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-14	-28.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-33	-32.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-45	-25.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-62	-5.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-81	-38.0%
Christian Union	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-112	-16.0%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-400	-84.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	-404	-1.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-496	-65.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-1,070	-24.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+4	-2,109	-22.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+2	-9,082	-26.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-15	-17,287	-18.0%
	Totals:	152	+72,992	+15.8%

The population of these 6 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 1,214,297; in 2000 it was 1,540,157. The total population changed 14.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (465,125) represent 38.3% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 54 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 54 groups had 462,025 adherents in 1980 and 535,017 adherents in 2000, for a change of 15.8%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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