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