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	105	470,583	182.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	30	66,700	25.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	118	46,494	18.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	68	44,912	17.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	83	38,169	14.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	78	37,103	14.4
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	10	34,000	13.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	54	27,023	10.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	55	23,325	9.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	46	21,390	8.3
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	10	16,155	6.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	68	16,120	6.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	33	14,904	5.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	28	13,881	5.4
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	16	13,754	5.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	34	12,875	5.0
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	9	12,758	4.9
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	38	9,429	3.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	28	9,146	3.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	40	7,868	3.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	27	7,802	3.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	31	7,057	2.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	18	6,961	2.7
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	23	6,559	2.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	28	5,023	2.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	15	4,545	1.8
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	4,422	1.7
New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches and other Fundamental Baptist Associations/Fellowships	Evangelical Protestant	28	4,147	1.6
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	3	3,168	1.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	3,024	1.2
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,651	1.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,621	1.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,512	1.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	8	2,429	0.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,230	0.9
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	7	2,169	0.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,488	0.6
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,348	0.5
Bahá'í	Other Theology	18	1,284	0.5
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,192	0.5
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,128	0.4
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	1,039	0.4
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,030	0.4
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	7	877	0.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	12	877	0.3
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	6	842	0.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	9	839	0.3
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	5	750	0.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	9	738	0.3
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	4	588	0.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	424	0.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	383	0.2
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	373	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	7	347	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	320	0.1
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	1	250	0.1
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	213	0.1
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	198	0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	190	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	167	0.1
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	139	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	5	136	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	115	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	107	0.0
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	90	0.0
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, American Diocese of the	Orthodox	1	75	0.0
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	32	0.0
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Sikh	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Tao	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Buddhism	Other Theology	64	n.a.	n.a.
Jain	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Zoroastrian	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	9	n.a.	n.a.
Hindu	Other Theology	5	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,435	1,021,488
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		1,169,579

The population of these 7 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,980,140; in 2000 it was 2,581,506. The total population changed 30.4%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,021,488) include 39.6% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (1,169,579) include 45.3% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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