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Grand Junction, CO MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

13,629 7,562 315 5,326 6,389 83,034
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 4 1,389 14.9
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 8 3,352 36.0
Catholic Church Catholic 4 8,068 86.6
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 90 1.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 386 4.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 1,582 17.0
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 69 0.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 297 3.2
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 28 0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 13 4,755 51.1
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 288 3.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 611 6.6
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 520 5.6
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 2 753 8.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 2 145 1.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 920 9.9
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 85 0.9
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 600 6.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 3 1,330 14.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 2 418 4.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 4 199 2.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 250 2.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 1,074 11.5
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 1 28 0.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 15 0.2
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 2 154 1.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 2 867 9.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 74 0.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 776 8.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 6 2,828 30.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 20 0.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 550 5.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 7 3,074 33.0
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 65 0.7
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 98 1.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 102 35,758  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 93,145. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (35,758) include 38.4% 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.