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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
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +16 +15,285 56.9%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +6 +9,950 51.1%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +9,620 235.2%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +4 +5,045 54.2%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +12 +2,980 26.7%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +2,174 2.2%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +2,106 31.1%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -3 +1,948 13.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -2 +1,524 30.1%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -2 +1,317 23.2%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +6 +1,124 198.9%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -9 +980 7.0%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +754 25.3%
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses Orthodox 0 +704 113.4%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant +1 +701 65.3%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +7 +441 88.7%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +382 29.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +3 +281 10.3%
Old Missionary Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant +1 +223 149.7%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 +179 23.2%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +168 6.4%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +3 +162 8.3%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +124 159.0%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 0 +36 22.5%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) Evangelical Protestant 0 +11 10.5%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 +11 0.9%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 0 +10 n.a.
International Pentecostal Church of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +1 1.7%
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -7 -5.6%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -7 -1.9%
Evangelical Mennonite Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -14 -20.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -16 -6.5%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -7 -61 -20.2%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant -1 -95 -40.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -2 -108 -3.3%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 -116 -27.4%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -166 -2.8%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -4 -176 -23.1%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +3 -244 -2.0%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 0 -253 -17.6%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -336 -8.5%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -873 -26.1%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -4 -900 -5.7%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant -2 -1,005 -39.3%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox -1 -1,100 -64.7%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -1,323 -9.1%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +7 -1,504 -31.1%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -1,789 -7.8%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant +1 -2,150 -24.7%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 0 -3,320 -66.4%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -8 -3,503 -7.9%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +12 -3,903 -8.9%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -11 -5,024 -6.6%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -4 -6,892 -5.5%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -6 -8,215 -26.9%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -16 -9,189 -9.3%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -5 -9,243 -22.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -8 -14,912 -20.4%
Catholic Church Catholic -10 -418,313 -25.1%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -4 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox -3 n.a. n.a.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
  Totals: -22 -436,516 -17.2%

The population of these 10 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 5,187,171; in 2000 it was 5,456,428. The total population changed 5.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (2,887,936) represent 55.7% of the 1990 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 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 59 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 59 groups had 2,543,691 adherents in 1990 and 2,107,175 adherents in 2000, for a change of -17.2%

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 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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