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	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	+7	+177,100	60.3%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+11	+21,284	46.9%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-6	+14,050	70.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+30	+9,627	26.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+5,909	74.1%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+5,272	62.2%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-9	+4,680	40.8%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+4,128	77.9%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+3,674	8.9%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+18	+2,734	8.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+2,193	512.4%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+1,909	171.2%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+1,803	37.9%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+1,507	27.6%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+1,384	38.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,377	43.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+691	37.9%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+615	274.6%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+2	+518	27.1%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+372	49.2%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+272	86.1%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+220	10.9%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-4	+218	17.2%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+153	1.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+109	14.9%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+103	13.3%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+91	91.9%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+83	27.7%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+76	21.8%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	0	+23	34.3%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	0	-22	-2.1%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	0	-28	-19.6%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-31	-18.6%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-88	-34.5%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-105	-10.7%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-107	-50.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-152	-1.9%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-185	-20.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-408	-15.8%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+2	-526	-60.3%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-2	-554	-3.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-593	-6.1%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-4	-741	-5.4%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-814	-9.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-1,240	-4.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-3	-3,190	-13.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-3	-3,191	-12.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+2	-7,557	-16.5%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+110	+242,643	+32.9%

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 adherent totals for 1990 (766,743) represent 38.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,021,488) include 39.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 48 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 48 groups had 737,438 adherents in 1990 and 980,081 adherents in 2000, for a change of 32.9%

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 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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