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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 % Change
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +370 276.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +42 105.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +2 +226 86.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +748 51.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +578 45.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +322 37.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +4 +180 8.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +50 3.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +7 3.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +1 1.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +170 1.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -8 +263 0.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 -83 -2.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -276 -9.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -610 -13.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -56 -13.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -105 -14.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -93 -16.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -972 -18.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -5,474 -18.0%
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -66 -26.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -2 -2,008 -30.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +1 -7,359 -30.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +1 -547 -32.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 -613 -32.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -1 -4,179 -33.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -3 -442 -38.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -28 -45.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant -2 -535 -49.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -1 -4,274 -56.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant -1 -127 -61.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -109 -69.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -220 -88.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +1 +400 n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +2 +939 n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +5 +316 n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +3,018 n.a.
  Totals: +8 -20,546 -10.3%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 383,958; in 2000 it was 359,062. The total population changed 2.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (199,436) represent 51.9% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (181,492) include 50.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 37 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 37 groups had 198,783 adherents in 1980 and 178,237 adherents in 2000, for a change of -10.3%

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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