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Metro Area Membership Report
Hartford, CT NECMA
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
130 |
464,653 |
413.5 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
97 |
56,919 |
50.7 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
38 |
29,325 |
26.1 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
55 |
23,367 |
20.8 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
22,592 |
20.1 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
46 |
18,980 |
16.9 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
34 |
16,820 |
15.0 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
40 |
16,344 |
14.6 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
12 |
9,101 |
8.1 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
12 |
5,416 |
4.8 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
20 |
3,381 |
3.0 |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
3,090 |
2.8 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
2,390 |
2.1 |
| National Association of Congregational Christian Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
4 |
2,322 |
2.1 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
2,185 |
1.9 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
5 |
1,975 |
1.8 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
6 |
1,738 |
1.6 |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
1 |
1,600 |
1.4 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
5 |
1,486 |
1.3 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
1,420 |
1.3 |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
1,340 |
1.2 |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
1,318 |
1.2 |
| Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) |
Mainline Protestant |
2 |
1,279 |
1.1 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
1,010 |
0.9 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
13 |
858 |
0.8 |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
754 |
0.7 |
| Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
690 |
0.6 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
674 |
0.6 |
| Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
595 |
0.5 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
435 |
0.4 |
| Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses |
Orthodox |
1 |
379 |
0.3 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
3 |
367 |
0.3 |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
263 |
0.2 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
243 |
0.2 |
| Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
198 |
0.2 |
| Advent Christian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
196 |
0.2 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
190 |
0.2 |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
165 |
0.2 |
| Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
164 |
0.2 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
146 |
0.1 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
127 |
0.1 |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
85 |
0.1 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
70 |
0.1 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
68 |
0.1 |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
57 |
0.1 |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
39 |
0.0 |
| Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
36 |
0.0 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
16 |
0.0 |
| Christ Catholic Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
4 |
0.0 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
7 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
4 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Independent Fundamental Churches of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 643 |
696,870 |
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The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,123,678. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (696,870) include 62.0% 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.
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