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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 % Change
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +21 +26,114 26.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +8 +2,336 99.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +4 +148 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +3 +817 74.0%
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +494 441.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +600 n.a.
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +2 -252 -12.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +742 n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +2 +165 n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +13 11.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +333 94.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +375 n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +100 n.a.
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association Evangelical Protestant +1 +76 n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 +96 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +95 n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +2,495 48.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +1 +48 n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +252 n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +615 46.0%
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +4,615 44.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -141 -12.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -119 -55.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -452 -48.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +6 10.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +27 5.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -118 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +5 2.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 -86 -63.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -279 -28.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -1 +1,797 33.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -1 +517 38.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -1 -1,085 -29.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant -2 -314 -18.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -3 -67 -11.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -12 +8,085 24.0%
  Totals: 38 +48,053 +27.1%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 362,038; in 2000 it was 440,801. The total population changed 11.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (181,338) represent 50.1% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (227,794) include 51.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 36 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 36 groups had 177,067 adherents in 1980 and 225,120 adherents in 2000, for a change of 27.1%

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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