Cumberland, MD-WV MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

14,422	22,302		15,534	1,599	48,151
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	+1	+20	n.a.
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-5	+70	2.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+440	3.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-349	-75.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+225	197.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-96	-62.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+450	78.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+38	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+335	52.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-420	-17.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-344	-35.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+66	57.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	-929	-45.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,249	-26.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+124	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+171	58.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-1	+110	67.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+12	6.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-124	-51.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-819	-34.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+43	90.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+56	22.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+6	-624	-14.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+41	n.a.
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-1	-570	-56.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-7	-5,765	-27.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+233	n.a.
	Totals:	-3	-8,855	-14.3%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 107,782; in 2000 it was 102,008. The total population changed 0.4%. The adherent totals for 1980 (62,140) represent 57.7% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (53,857) include 52.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 27 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 27 groups had 61,715 adherents in 1980 and 52,860 adherents in 2000, for a change of -14.3%

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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