Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, MI CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

438,273	328,575	41,259	1,249,547	189,632	3,209,142
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^†
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	75	0.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	14	42,967	8.3
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	87	44,108	8.5
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	2	621	0.1
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	160	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	2	105	0.0
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	502	0.1
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	5,000	1.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	100	26,844	5.2
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,945	0.4
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,074	0.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	294,277	56.7
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	125	0.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	402	1,667,860	321.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	21	3,279	0.6
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	20	3,193	0.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	13	3,342	0.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	28	5,056	1.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,638	0.5
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	33	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	45	5,859	1.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	60	14,900	2.9
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	79	0.0
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	17	761	0.2
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	7	506	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	27	11,163	2.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	7	377	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	12	0.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	71	14,045	2.7
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,208	0.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	104	22,867	4.4
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	2	1,441	0.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	11	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,202	0.2
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	245	0.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	109	40,630	7.8
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	111	0.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	565	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	155	75,747	14.6
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	296	0.1
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	14	9,308	1.8
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	42	5,686	1.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	9	773	0.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	12	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	13	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	13	15,850	3.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	28	19,475	3.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	497	0.1
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	60	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	78	0.0
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	50	100,326	19.3
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	402	0.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	175	125,176	24.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	12	302	0.1
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	22	2,980	0.6
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	2	236	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	20	8,721	1.7
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	30	4,836	0.9
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	13	3,949	0.8
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	149	0.0
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	6	410	0.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	4	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	7	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,295	0.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	126	73,145	14.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	424	0.1
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	3	176	0.0
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	13	2,558	0.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	24	4,090	0.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	39	12,322	2.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	139	44,065	8.5
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	2	1,700	0.3
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	9	2,717	0.5
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	67	30,493	5.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	279	99,070	19.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	34	6,765	1.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	44	14,616	2.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	2,685	2,887,936

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 5,187,171. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,887,936) include 55.7% 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.