Jacksonville, FL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

265,158	89,449	3,054	101,591	18,050	623,189
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	174	173,246	191.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	67	38,536	42.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	48	6,127	6.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	41	7,641	8.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	40	9,720	10.7
Catholic Church	Catholic	36	68,833	75.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	34	19,391	21.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	31	15,053	16.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	15	7,115	7.9
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	14	608	0.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	14	6,496	7.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	13	3,403	3.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	13	2,315	2.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	11	2,845	3.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,340	1.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,310	2.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	11	11,370	12.5
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	8	232	0.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,323	2.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	751	0.8
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	7	978	1.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,327	2.6
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	6	262	0.3
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	5	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	5	7,300	8.1
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	354	0.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	4	964	1.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	248	0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	329	0.4
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	340	0.4
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	355	0.4
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	154	0.2
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	459	0.5
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,900	2.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	440	0.5
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	186	0.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	1,011	1.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	257	0.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	210	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	21	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	25	0.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	393	0.4
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	51	0.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	58,810	64.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	685	457,106

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 906,727. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (457,106) include 50.4% 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.