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Denominational Groups, 2000

61,142 36,892   48,557 2,740 146,864
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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Religious Bodies Theology Congregations Adherents % Change
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +116 967.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology -1 +572 92.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,905 59.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +96 55.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +177 47.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +17 24.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +6 +549 22.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 0 +5,338 16.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +35 7.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +93 5.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -5 +11 0.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -408 -10.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -4 -3,206 -16.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -1 -197 -18.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -3 -2,792 -20.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -91 -22.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 -712 -24.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +1 -726 -25.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -2 -512 -25.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -3 -784 -28.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -376 -32.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 -2,272 -48.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -325 -72.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -1 -465 -78.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +1 +140 n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +3 +165 n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +1,195 n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +1 +3 n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +179 n.a.
  Totals: -4 -2,275 -1.5%

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 276,252; in 2000 it was 296,195. The total population changed 6.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (149,518) represent 54.1% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (149,331) include 50.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 29 groups had 148,859 adherents in 1980 and 146,584 adherents in 2000, for a change of -1.5%

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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