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Fort Collins-Loveland, CO MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

35,965 21,247 46 32,259 9,211 152,766
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
Catholic Church Catholic 7 24,218 130.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 7 5,912 31.8
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 6 5,601 30.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 10 4,261 22.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 10 3,807 20.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 2 3,299 17.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 7 3,281 17.6
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 4 2,234 12.0
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 9 2,073 11.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 2,000 10.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 5 1,491 8.0
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 8 1,347 7.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 1,254 6.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 7 1,187 6.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 3 970 5.2
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 653 3.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 634 3.4
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 604 3.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 585 3.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 584 3.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 2 377 2.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 2 353 1.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 300 1.6
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 299 1.6
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 280 1.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 279 1.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 4 276 1.5
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 275 1.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 210 1.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 182 1.0
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 150 0.8
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 2 88 0.5
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 81 0.4
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America Evangelical Protestant 1 79 0.4
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 1 77 0.4
Church of the Lutheran Confession Evangelical Protestant 1 76 0.4
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 61 0.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 51 0.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 44 0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 43 0.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 32 0.2
Reformed Church in the United States Evangelical Protestant 1 31 0.2
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 28 0.2
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 3 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 136 69,667  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 186,136. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (69,667) include 37.4% 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.