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	36	30,245	28.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	7	4,532	4.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	22	6,292	6.0
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,190	1.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	64,207	61.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	20	22,796	21.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,863	1.8
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,497	1.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	14	3,330	3.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	26	5,990	5.7
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	7	424	0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	39	4,513	4.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	25	1,087	1.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	17	5,255	5.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	417	0.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,841	1.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	36	5,638	5.4
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	6	831	0.8
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	211	0.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	24	9,990	9.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	36	11,545	11.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	10	727	0.7
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	972	0.9
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	55	10,573	10.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	4	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	2,700	2.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	5,590	5.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	6	720	0.7
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	38	4,555	4.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	8	3,140	3.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,106	2.0
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.1
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	39	17,227	16.4
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	30	0.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,348	1.3
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	150	0.1
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	10	0.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	77	32,548	31.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	4	971	0.9
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	22	752	0.7
Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	657	0.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	3,941	3.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	318	167,164	159.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	474	0.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	85	21,247	20.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	357	128,649	122.5
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	60	10,024	9.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,503	600,056

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,050,304. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (600,056) include 57.1% 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.