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Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

409,650 105,697 1,367 26,201 9,945 409,581
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 8 2,057 2.8
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 2 185 0.3
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 27 4,656 6.3
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 9 1,708 2.3
Catholic Church Catholic 15 13,276 17.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 158 0.2
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 5 215 0.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 81 0.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 326 0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 4 1,083 1.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 83 13,451 18.1
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 310 0.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 5 2,106 2.8
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 117 0.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 412 0.6
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 25 2,507 3.4
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 18 10,239 13.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 12 4,973 6.7
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 206 0.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 115 0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 30 3,876 5.2
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 3 371 0.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 425 0.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 62 21,364 28.7
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 21 4,170 5.6
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 4 3,724 5.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 6 1,154 1.6
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 497 287,940 387.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 3 193 0.3
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 214 57,590 77.5
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 1,071 438,988  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 743,284. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (438,988) include 59.1% 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.