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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -69 -11.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +6,599 479.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +196 50.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +2 +21,259 193.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 -1,467 -42.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +3 +529 441.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant -1 +56 18.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 -154 -39.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +9 35.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +27 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +8 +3,772 148.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +1 -270 -38.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 -55 -5.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 -46 -8.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +858 54.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,577 388.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +2,308 646.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +2 -256 -5.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +635 n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -318 -88.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +62 214.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +3,575 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +970 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +3 +357 169.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +1,000 n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,280 42.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +2 +73 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 -406 -8.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +110 n.a.
Protestant Reformed Churches in America Evangelical Protestant 0 -149 -86.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +21 9.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +2 -179 -11.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +2 -42 -2.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 +138 40.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -45 -4.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +1 +108 2.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +200 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +222 139.0%
  Totals: +48 +42,485 +84.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 149,184; in 2000 it was 251,494. The total population changed 35.1%. The adherent totals for 1980 (50,221) represent 33.7% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (98,728) include 39.3% 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 50,140 adherents in 1980 and 92,625 adherents in 2000, for a change of 84.7%

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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