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Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

265,813 242,899 1,566 43,022 15,039 683,170
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 35 30,213 31.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 854 0.9
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 17 2,586 2.7
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 3 352 0.4
Catholic Church Catholic 15 16,884 17.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 8 1,534 1.6
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 9 1,520 1.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 17 4,592 4.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 23 5,478 5.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 6 1,086 1.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 35 2,938 3.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 8 2,981 3.1
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 421 0.4
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 16 2,318 2.4
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 32 4,077 4.3
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 24 10,549 11.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 37 12,622 13.3
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 11 798 0.8
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 52 12,280 12.9
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 3 388 0.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 31 3,320 3.5
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 6 1,406 1.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 10 2,071 2.2
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province Mainline Protestant 38 17,897 18.8
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 30 0.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 76 32,470 34.1
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 4 759 0.8
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 7 3,003 3.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 12 3,108 3.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 316 157,487 165.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 295 0.3
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 97 24,705 26.0
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 364 127,971 134.5
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant n.a. 40 0.0
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 1,318 489,033  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 951,170. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (489,033) include 51.4% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.