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Denominational Groups, 2000

51,962 11,143   6,012 2,286 40,271
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
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 54 36,960 374.3
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 28 8,807 89.2
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association Evangelical Protestant 15 1,940 19.7
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 12 2,583 26.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 6 785 8.0
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 644 6.5
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 5 380 3.9
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 4 1,339 13.6
Catholic Church Catholic 4 4,149 42.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 647 6.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 152 1.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 770 7.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 2 444 4.5
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 2 1,006 10.2
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 2 119 1.2
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 41 0.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 233 2.4
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 102 1.0
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 43 0.4
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 120 1.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 256 2.6
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 55 0.6
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 91 0.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 750 7.6
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 7,643 77.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 158 70,059  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 98,738. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (70,059) include 71.0% 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.