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Denominational Groups, 2000

21,144 41,271 1,818 62,654 1,720 115,208
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 -263 -71.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,134 45.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +148 106.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 -582 -17.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -23 -7,312 -10.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +1 -93 -17.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -63 -34.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +81 225.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 0 +148 20.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -116 n.a.
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +3 +47 20.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 -129 -15.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -613 -24.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant -2 +816 58.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +621 1242.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -10 -12,939 -32.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 +95 731.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +303 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 -2 -3.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -3 -714 -59.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 -1,556 -27.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -232 -63.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 +93 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 -3,607 -49.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +931 52.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -1 -10 -3.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +5 -140 -38.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology -1 -19 -8.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -755 -35.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -2 -3,476 -38.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,120 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -2 -2.0%
  Totals: -23 -27,086 -17.7%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 266,650; in 2000 it was 243,815. The total population changed 1.6%. The adherent totals for 1980 (153,201) represent 57.5% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (128,607) include 52.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 32 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 32 groups had 152,805 adherents in 1980 and 125,719 adherents in 2000, for a change of -17.7%

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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