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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 % Change
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant +1 +10 n.a.
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +92 92.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -7 -4,986 -11.0%
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses Orthodox +2 +1,325 n.a.
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant +1 +196 n.a.
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 0 +22 23.0%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 0 +500 42.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +25 +20,439 94.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +5 +466 28.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant -1 +382 27.0%
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -28 -19.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -25 -89,949 -7.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -2 +436 16.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -2 -1,737 -41.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -2 +1,719 35.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +479 21.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +3 -10,708 -65.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -5 +6,573 64.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +13 +585 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +13 +4,660 49.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant +1 -337 -48.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -8 -254 -2.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -10 -1,837 -8.0%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant +2 +1,188 n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -20 +2,782 445.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +312 35.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +117 104.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -7 -27,358 -47.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +480 77.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +9 +1,589 1589.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -28 -12,990 -16.0%
Evangelical Mennonite Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +20 56.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +18 +14,353 n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -1 -5,447 -44.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 -160 -14.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +12 +15,087 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +9 +14,950 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +34 +29,425 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +8 +547 140.0%
International Pentecostal Church of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 +61 n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +101 100.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +35 +85,199 492.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 -14,419 -11.0%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +696 23.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 0 -120 -46.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant +5 -3,207 -33.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +37 +3,332 n.a.
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant +2 -1,163 -24.0%
Old Missionary Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant +2 +372 n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese Orthodox +1 +450 n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox +4 +1,585 n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +4 +1,689 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +17 +1,677 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -19 -37,039 -39.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +308 n.a.
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant -5 -2,460 -61.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +4 +2,224 19.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +4 +1,412 13.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +26 -1,514 -4.0%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox 0 -1,821 -75.0%
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox +1 +281 100.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +3 +281 10.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -7 -13,051 -37.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +3 -23,756 -21.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant +3 +104 111.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +33 +8,871 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -3,003 -18.0%
  Totals: 204 -29,967 -1.4%

The population of these 10 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 5,293,217; in 2000 it was 5,456,428. The total population changed 5.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (2,206,437) represent 41.7% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (2,247,286) include 41.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 67 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 67 groups had 2,161,175 adherents in 1980 and 2,131,208 adherents in 2000, for a change of -1.4%

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.

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