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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 +93 27.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +5 +384 45.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +176 44.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -1 +26,759 29.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +647 459.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +24 16.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +61 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 +384 114.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -21 -18.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 -40 -29.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -1 -146 -6.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +220 n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +1,927 16.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +34 154.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 +377 306.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,526 25.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 0 -331 -39.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +17 3.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 +110 n.a.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +188 247.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -665 -30.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -255 -19.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +28 6.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +1 +266 92.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +19 73.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -179 -12.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -134 -3.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +859 19.0%
  Totals: +13 +32,328 +24.5%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 175,280; in 2000 it was 226,778. The total population changed 16.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (132,085) represent 75.4% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (166,564) include 73.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 28 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 28 groups had 132,085 adherents in 1980 and 164,413 adherents in 2000, for a change of 24.5%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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