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Denominational Groups, 2000

1,296,169	474,770	7,257	808,167	144,292	2,491,146
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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	700	768,487	190.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	97	363,085	89.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	328	262,234	65.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	236,454	58.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	368	105,395	26.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	80	62,833	15.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	243	59,078	14.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	114	57,309	14.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	87	47,606	11.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	102	41,962	10.4
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	38	39,335	9.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	15	39,000	9.7
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	101	36,843	9.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	77	28,992	7.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	50	24,940	6.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	51	21,594	5.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	57	16,619	4.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	61	11,683	2.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	56	8,841	2.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	13	7,899	2.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	22	6,056	1.5
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	16	4,724	1.2
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	15	3,840	1.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	8	2,311	0.6
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	30	2,017	0.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	9	2,016	0.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,967	0.5
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	1,592	0.4
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,574	0.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,138	0.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,096	0.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	17	1,067	0.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	8	875	0.2
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	2	900	0.2
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	774	0.2
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	7	733	0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	557	0.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	520	0.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	510	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	424	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	8	449	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	323	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	318	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	7	276	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	7	257	0.1
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	167	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	3	162	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	161	0.0
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	123	0.0
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	2	107	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	115	0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	74	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	74	0.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	26	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	38	0.0
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	47	0.0
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	20	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	19	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	21	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	2,917	2,277,675

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 4,037,282. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,277,675) include 56.4% 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.