Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

250,106	166,571	4,563	470,583	129,665	1,560,018
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	98	293,483	148.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	81	45,726	23.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	19	45,416	22.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	68	41,238	20.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	88	36,867	18.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	60	34,369	17.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	50	28,263	14.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	58	26,516	13.4
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	25,965	13.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	49	24,580	12.4
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	16	19,950	10.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	56	15,967	8.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	35	15,458	7.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	38	13,616	6.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	19	11,475	5.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	24	9,739	4.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	41	8,682	4.4
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	8,482	4.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	28	7,972	4.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	27	7,954	4.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	18	5,454	2.8
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	26	5,301	2.7
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	15	4,756	2.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	24	3,639	1.8
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	12	3,168	1.6
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	7	2,577	1.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,010	1.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	6	1,911	1.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,821	0.9
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,513	0.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,270	0.6
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,115	0.6
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	1,061	0.5
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	7	982	0.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	11	923	0.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	5	873	0.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	774	0.4
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	756	0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	7	733	0.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	428	0.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	2	430	0.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	348	0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	336	0.2
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	3	316	0.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	300	0.2
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	252	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	255	0.1
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	242	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	228	0.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	5	224	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	214	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	6	167	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	143	0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	140	0.1
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	115	0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	99	0.1
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	0.0
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	1	32	0.0
Berean Fundamental Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.0
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	0.0
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	17	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	7	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	30	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,177	766,743

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,980,140. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (766,743) include 38.7% 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.