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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 +113 9.0%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 0 +98 71.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +3 -1,629 -13.5%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +2 -525 -18.0%
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +40,323 30.2%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +1 -81 -20.1%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +1,203 58.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,545 125.6%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant -2 +10,140 12.3%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -1 -290 -18.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +5 +920 89.6%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -79 -24.3%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 0 0.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +2 +1,378 54.4%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -3 -9.7%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +1 -8 -0.3%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -2 -84 -5.0%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 0 -5 -1.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +275 176.3%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 -652 -10.6%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +140 22.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +4 -997 -7.1%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -2 -6 -0.7%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +20 80.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +6,650 246.3%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +2,265 19.7%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +37 231.3%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +275 15.9%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 -323 -1.9%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -41 -20.7%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -522 -22.0%
Netherlands Reformed Congregations Evangelical Protestant 0 -641 -44.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 -743 -7.7%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant -1 +371 103.3%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant -7 -4,191 -6.1%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,742 243.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +220 6.1%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant -2 -1,197 -53.6%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +49 90.7%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -2,958 -22.2%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +6 -1,360 -6.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +4,371 37.5%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +154 6.6%
  Totals: +21 +55,954 +12.7%

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 937,891; in 2000 it was 1,088,514. The total population changed 16.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (469,043) represent 50.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (536,823) include 49.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 43 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 43 groups had 439,348 adherents in 1990 and 495,302 adherents in 2000, for a change of 12.7%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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