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Denominational Groups, 2000

7,519 29,773   24,961 1,018 34,207
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
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 57 26,515 257.0
Catholic Church Catholic 17 22,335 216.5
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant 12 1,510 14.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 11 3,590 34.8
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 9 2,179 21.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 9 2,295 22.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 5 660 6.4
Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 5 462 4.5
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 154 1.5
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 344 3.3
American Association of Lutheran Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 251 2.4
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America Evangelical Protestant 2 437 4.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 179 1.7
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 267 2.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 291 2.8
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 2 1,633 15.8
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 253 2.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 2 55 0.5
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 50 0.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 52 0.5
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 25 0.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 254 2.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 318 3.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 377 3.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 470 4.6
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 7 0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 74 0.7
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 150 1.5
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 413 4.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 77 0.8
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 486 4.7
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 160 66,163  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 103,181. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (66,163) include 64.1% 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.