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Denominational Groups, 2000

37,130 12,509 159 1,326 682 58,350
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 60 24,806 228.2
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 39 10,467 96.3
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 9,143 84.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 11 2,555 23.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 13 2,169 20.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 12 1,558 14.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 4 1,325 12.2
Catholic Church Catholic 2 1,280 11.8
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 1 995 9.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 7 835 7.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 6 772 7.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 700 6.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 503 4.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 488 4.5
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 3 384 3.5
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 3 347 3.2
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 347 3.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 330 3.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 258 2.4
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 4 203 1.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 188 1.7
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 10 187 1.7
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 146 1.3
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 125 1.2
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 118 1.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 116 1.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 100 0.9
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 97 0.9
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 80 0.7
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 195 60,622  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 108,711. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (60,622) include 55.8% 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.