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Denominational Groups, 2000

3,890 15,234   35,903 1,275 68,043
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 26 22,491 189.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 7 990 8.4
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 422 3.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 35 0.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 118 1.0
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 73 0.6
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 73 0.6
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 110 0.9
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 2 84 0.7
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 567 4.8
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 1 48 0.4
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 105 0.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 276 2.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 33 0.3
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 6 574 4.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 16 2,884 24.3
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 1 84 0.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 16 2,615 22.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 58 0.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 18 4,633 39.1
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 224 1.9
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 1 58 0.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 33 8,343 70.4
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 2 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 363 3.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 800 6.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 125 1.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 150 46,186  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 118,539. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (46,186) include 39.0% 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.