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Green Bay, WI MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

20,818 25,549 110 118,733 1,354 60,214
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 41 105,905 544.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 13 13,302 68.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 9 7,825 40.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 11 4,939 25.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 9 4,542 23.3
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 5 2,848 14.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 6 1,957 10.1
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 3 1,538 7.9
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 1,200 6.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 3 1,095 5.6
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 808 4.2
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 2 719 3.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 610 3.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 574 3.0
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 498 2.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 487 2.5
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 462 2.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 417 2.1
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 341 1.8
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 260 1.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 223 1.2
The Protestant Conference (Lutheran) Evangelical Protestant 1 200 1.0
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 139 0.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 130 0.7
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 115 0.6
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 89 0.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 82 0.4
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 28 0.1
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 124 151,333  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 194,594. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (151,333) include 77.8% 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.