Gadsden, AL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

58,544	9,140		2,056	935	32,784
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^†
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	131	1.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	404	3.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	1,772	17.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	0.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	159	1.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	150	1.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,888	18.3
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	17	0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	460	4.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	230	2.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	17	1,935	18.8
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	818	7.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	2	456	4.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	122	1.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	375	3.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	112	1.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	4	894	8.7
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	235	2.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	182	1.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	97	46,818	454.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	40	11,355	110.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	202	68,580

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 103,057. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (68,580) include 66.5% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.