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Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

38,275 67,561 1,019 70,855 3,782 177,570
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
American Association of Lutheran Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 427 1.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 11 3,963 11.3
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 16 2,432 6.9
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 6 1,629 4.6
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 6,128 17.5
Catholic Church Catholic 40 77,238 220.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 104 0.3
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 3 595 1.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 7 4,890 13.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 8 1,841 5.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 112 0.3
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 4 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 45 0.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 5 403 1.2
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 2 76 0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 3 1,493 4.3
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 10 1,734 4.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 7 740 2.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 1,624 4.6
Evangelical Congregational Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 139 0.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 6 1,591 4.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 34 26,556 75.7
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 40 0.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 147 0.4
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 3 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 3 1,500 4.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 5 4,447 12.7
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 1,250 3.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 17 12,379 35.3
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 2 219 0.6
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 84 0.2
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 4 476 1.4
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 4 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 26 10,588 30.2
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 294 0.8
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 4 473 1.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 5 650 1.9
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 11 3,472 9.9
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 274 0.8
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 12 5,745 16.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 48 20,930 59.7
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 477 1.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 401 1.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 330 197,606  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 350,861. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (197,606) include 56.3% 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.