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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 +1,051 23.2%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,900 30.2%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +942 79.2%
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +20,226 88.7%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -150 -8.1%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -3 +2,615 78.5%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 +2,580 43.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 +391 92.2%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +8 +1,705 37.8%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -7 -164 -15.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology -5 +732 13.9%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -96 -23.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 +414 22.5%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 +423 7.5%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant -5 -355 -42.7%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +492 233.2%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -1 +1,195 12.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 -545 -4.7%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant -1 +375 38.6%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +7 -2,141 -20.2%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 -770 -28.5%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +6 +12,604 225.5%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 +90 12.5%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant -3 +1,133 24.9%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -4 -155 -4.9%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -2 +691 32.8%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 0 -41 -73.2%
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province Mainline Protestant -1 -1,585 -9.2%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +13 43.3%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant -1 +330 24.5%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 -2,532 -7.8%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +4 +1,229 126.6%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant -2 +644 98.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +4 +659 16.7%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +15 +3,435 2.1%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +88 18.6%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -3 -1,664 -7.8%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +3 +6,165 4.8%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +7 +4,645 46.3%
  Totals: +22 +56,569 +11.3%

The population of these 8 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,050,304; in 2000 it was 1,251,509. The total population changed 19.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (600,056) represent 57.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (568,339) include 45.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 39 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 39 groups had 502,437 adherents in 1990 and 559,006 adherents in 2000, for a change of 11.3%

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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