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Denominational Groups, 2000

30,737 127,167 6,823 433,711 42,140 508,040
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
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +4 +1,063 53.8%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +3 +788 23.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +3 +783 55.1%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant +3 -455 -19.6%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +906 134.4%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +291 199.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +150 6.9%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +2 -2 -0.1%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +313 119.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 -2,328 -10.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,100 82.1%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +255 154.5%
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses Orthodox 0 +137 36.1%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 0 -20 -3.4%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 0 -1,180 -73.8%
Catholic Church Catholic 0 -30,942 -6.7%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 +10 14.3%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 0 -434 -33.9%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -136 -18.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -442 -2.6%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -209 -56.9%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -789 -14.6%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 -5 -5.9%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -168 -11.3%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +114 60.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +14 0.8%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -1,709 -9.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +38 29.9%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 +924 70.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 -119 -49.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -1 +34 50.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 +27 2.7%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant -1 -4 -25.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -2 -1,490 -9.1%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -3 -77 -9.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -4 -3,615 -6.4%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -10 +4,275 14.6%
  Totals: +4 -32,902 -5.0%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,123,678; in 2000 it was 1,148,618. The total population changed 2.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (696,870) represent 62.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (640,578) include 55.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 37 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 37 groups had 660,268 adherents in 1990 and 627,366 adherents in 2000, for a change of -5.0%

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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