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Denominational Groups, 2000

108,770 29,653   18,909 4,227 149,562
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 Association, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +317 22.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +1 +162 n.a.
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +8 +1,093 25.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant +5 +2,750 65.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +2 +14,672 346.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -3 +576 27.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,907 133.0%
Christian Union Evangelical Protestant +1 +35 350.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +2 +407 122.0%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant +1 +212 n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +37 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +4 +2,101 207.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +5 +296 16.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +4 +891 15.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +26 41.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +693 39.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +219 332.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +1,624 176.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -37 -51.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +14 280.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +500 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 +129 n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +16 4.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +150 n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +464 36.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 0 -49 -67.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +21 +2,661 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +13 +1,538 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -16 +362 11.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +203 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +249 178.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +505 33.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +18 +30,150 90.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +122 165.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +8 +4,059 29.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -41 -82.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +156 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +266 n.a.
  Totals: +95 +69,435 +82.5%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 178,609; in 2000 it was 311,121. The total population changed 47.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (84,141) represent 47.1% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (161,559) include 51.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 38 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 38 groups had 84,129 adherents in 1980 and 153,564 adherents in 2000, for a change of 82.5%

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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