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Denominational Groups, 2000

18,162 11,136 112 25,360 1,057 102,595
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
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -2 +524 452.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -1 +132 132.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 +761 112.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +168 70.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +247 51.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +135 46.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant +2 +158 36.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 +148 30.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +3 +274 15.0%
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +1,474 6.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +6 2.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -98 -4.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 -12 -6.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -47 -12.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology -3 -21 -13.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -149 -13.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -289 -15.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -177 -16.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 -97 -17.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -23 -19.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 -561 -23.0%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant -2 -71 -30.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -504 -31.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -1,091 -37.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -2,128 -37.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -228 -40.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +4 +563 n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 +107 n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox +2 +5 n.a.
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +36 n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +4,088 n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +45 n.a.
  Totals: +11 3,375 +6.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 151,495; in 2000 it was 158,422. The total population changed 5.8%. The adherent totals for 1980 (50,703) represent 33.5% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (55,827) include 35.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 32 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 32 groups had 50,653 adherents in 1980 and 54,028 adherents in 2000, for a change of 6.7%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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