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Denominational Groups, 2000

215,959	131,180	2,623	173,768	13,293	551,691
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	68	133,445	142.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	166	82,300	87.8
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	111	68,159	72.7
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	23,507	25.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	70	22,842	24.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	31	16,755	17.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	25	14,112	15.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	23	13,336	14.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	25	12,042	12.8
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	20	11,651	12.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	11	11,475	12.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	14	9,590	10.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	18	6,149	6.6
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	3,724	4.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	17	3,623	3.9
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,911	3.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	2,700	2.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	8	2,531	2.7
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	6	2,369	2.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,336	2.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,317	2.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,235	2.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	4	2,075	2.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	4	1,735	1.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,695	1.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,557	1.7
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,457	1.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	5	1,260	1.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,230	1.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,027	1.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	9	912	1.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	10	818	0.9
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	715	0.8
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	631	0.7
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	520	0.6
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	508	0.5
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	408	0.4
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	405	0.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	402	0.4
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	3	359	0.4
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	325	0.4
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	198	0.2
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	156	0.2
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	138	0.2
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	3	117	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	89	0.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	54	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	46	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	25	0.0
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	16	0.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	6	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	5	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	27	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	816	469,043

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 937,891. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (469,043) include 50.0% 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.