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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
Catholic Church Catholic 2 2,404 24.1
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 2 74 0.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 622 6.2
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 6,148 61.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 70 0.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 60 0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 21 3,069 30.7
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 27 0.3
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 2 86 0.9
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 253 2.5
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 16 2,139 21.4
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 4 441 4.4
Duck River and Kindred Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 159 1.6
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 1,950 19.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 350 3.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 325 3.3
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 3 769 7.7
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 2 99 1.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 104 1.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 197 2.0
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 100 50,681 507.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 80 0.8
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 2 543 5.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 1 124 1.2
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 40 10,339 103.6
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 467 4.7
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 0 0.0
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 218 81,580  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 99,840. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (81,580) include 81.7% 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.