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Denominational Groups, 2000

153,810 53,903 516 14,991 4,574 213,007
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 133 122,230 309.1
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 48,587 122.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 85 34,584 87.5
Catholic Church Catholic 15 11,872 30.0
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 21 6,892 17.4
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 15 6,614 16.7
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 11 4,271 10.8
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 5 3,500 8.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 25 3,438 8.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 8 2,721 6.9
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 14 2,439 6.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 5 2,153 5.5
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 8 2,111 5.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 5 1,371 3.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 3 1,289 3.3
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 1,250 3.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 6 1,121 2.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 6 920 2.3
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 5 886 2.2
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 699 1.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 542 1.4
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 478 1.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 4 321 0.8
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 291 0.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 290 0.7
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 3 231 0.6
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 210 0.5
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 209 0.5
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 4 171 0.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 160 0.4
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 2 153 0.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 124 0.3
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 83 0.2
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association Evangelical Protestant 1 61 0.2
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 1 53 0.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 53 0.1
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 1 47 0.1
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 406 262,425  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 395,396. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (262,425) include 66.4% 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.