Greenville, NC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

20,371	16,396		3,938	1,628	91,465
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^†
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	737	5.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	311	2.3
Bahá'í	Other Theology	1	118	0.9
Buddhism	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	3	3,938	29.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	11	2,678	20.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	837	6.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	7	927	6.9
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	1	120	0.9
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	51	0.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	657	4.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	23	0.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	202	1.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	4	1,543	11.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	230	1.7
Hindu	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,350	10.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,000	7.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	45	0.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,664	12.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	240	1.8
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	2	538	4.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,539	11.5
Original Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	19	4,862	36.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	8	1,832	13.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	328	2.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	289	2.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	371	2.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	13	6,380	47.7
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	75	0.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	13	9,376	70.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	72	0.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	136	42,333
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		61,831

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 107,924; in 2000 it was 133,798. The total population changed 24.0%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (42,333) include 31.6% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (61,831) include 46.2% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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