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Denominational Groups, 2000

252,962	180,979	3,661	192,017	21,781	956,086
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
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+15	+4,571	23.3%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+22,038	183.3%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+182	1.2%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+6	+2,308	41.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+10,671	20.3%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+5	-1,430	-27.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+1,889	14.9%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+813	81.3%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+324	188.4%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,848	27.4%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-23	-11.2%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+716	98.1%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+979	41.8%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-2,289	-17.9%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	-1,402	-18.5%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	0	0.0%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-27	-8.5%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+3,346	665.2%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+87	7.6%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-52	-8.2%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	0	+151	209.7%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+60,058	45.5%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-74	-59.7%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-28	-3.5%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	0	+1	0.9%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-77	-55.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+825	6.5%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	-73	-16.0%
Midwest Congregational Christian Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1	-1.7%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+240	58.7%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-106	-20.9%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-8	-9.6%
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-83	-18.4%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-126	-57.5%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-15	-4.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-95	-3.7%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	-1	-189	-69.7%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+9	2.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+128	3.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+1,114	13.5%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-185	-10.1%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-461	-98.7%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-3	-2,508	-25.5%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-5	-2,450	-9.2%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-5	-1,843	-11.3%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-5	-1,903	-7.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-9	-4,448	-11.6%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-11	-9,131	-11.9%
	Totals:	+19	+83,271	+15.8%

The population of these 9 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,380,491; in 2000 it was 1,607,486. The total population changed 16.4%. The adherent totals for 1990 (599,486) represent 43.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (651,400) include 40.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 48 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 48 groups had 526,743 adherents in 1990 and 610,014 adherents in 2000, for a change of 15.8%

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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