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	% Change
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+30	+1,858	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+984	57.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+812	78.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+432	n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+423	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+387	124.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+360	n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+341	76.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+269	73.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+234	85.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+211	215.0%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+184	n.a.
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+179	61.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	-5	+110	4.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+50	n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+42	n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+38	146.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+36	20.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+6	12.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-5	-6.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-54	0.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-124	-48.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-400	-74.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-479	-34.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-7	-1,102	-8.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-1,122	-32.0%
	Totals:	41	3,670	+7.5%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 110,163; in 2000 it was 125,761. The total population changed 10.0%. The adherent totals for 1980 (49,198) represent 44.7% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (55,026) include 43.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 26 groups had 48,948 adherents in 1980 and 52,618 adherents in 2000, for a change of 7.5%

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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