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.
[More information on the data sources]

Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	% Change
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+25	+61,639	1218.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+3,923	786.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+714	571.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	+1	+313	522.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+26	+6,842	264.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+1,796	218.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,571	167.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+367	166.0%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+113	147.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+7,833	130.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+2,827	129.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+490	127.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+9	+225,456	92.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+70	+20,841	81.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+982	79.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+450	43.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+1,799	38.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+1,198	36.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+539	28.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+27	+7,917	27.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+172	26.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+9	+8,021	22.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+19	+2,795	21.0%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+50	13.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+818	10.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+673	9.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	+807	6.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-3	-984	-7.0%
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-16	-8.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-651	-8.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+12	-2,586	-9.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-4	-933	-12.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-954	-12.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+1	-17	-14.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	-409	-16.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-4	-5,022	-19.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+5	-10,349	-21.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-4	-9,994	-30.0%
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-107	-33.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-249	-39.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+3	-294	-46.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-1,713	-70.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+136	n.a.
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+1,039	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+1,128	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+3	+3,168	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+34,000	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+16,155	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+115	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+2	+320	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+167	n.a.
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+90	n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+3,024	n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+16	+13,754	n.a.
	Totals:	+345	+399,764	+67.2%

The population of these 7 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 1,741,899; in 2000 it was 2,581,506. The total population changed 30.4%. The adherent totals for 1980 (597,039) represent 34.3% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 54 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 54 groups had 595,191 adherents in 1980 and 994,955 adherents in 2000, for a change of 67.2%

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.

[More information on these data sources]