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Florence, SC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

31,769 16,844 432 2,716 3,265 70,735
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 Adherence Rate
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 45 13,879 121.4
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 43 23,061 201.7
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 29 3,913 34.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 13 1,276 11.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 9 2,566 22.4
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 8 335 2.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 284 2.5
Catholic Church Catholic 4 2,280 19.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 77 0.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 1,313 11.5
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 3 444 3.9
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 2 527 4.6
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 366 3.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 346 3.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 640 5.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 513 4.5
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 37 0.3
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 189 1.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 26 0.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 119 1.0
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 515 4.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 122 1.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 210 1.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 3 0.0
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 1,500 13.1
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 12,351 108.0
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 186 66,892  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 114,344. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (66,892) include 58.5% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.