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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +2 +125 12.4%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +3 +3,865 39.8%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 -18 -3.9%
Catholic Church Catholic +3 +32,758 47.6%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +353 47.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 +316 11.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -2 +2,768 81.3%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +27 17.5%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -265 -19.8%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -1 +919 15.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -2 +4 0.7%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +2 +619 8.7%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 +37 19.9%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +4 +567 24.5%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -3 +834 10.9%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +2,153 11.1%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +80 22.5%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 -211 -3.2%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +27 128.6%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +5 20.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox -1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 -978 -51.5%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -3 -2,810 -24.7%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +3 +268 68.2%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +127 5.5%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 0 0.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +536 23.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant -1 +259 98.9%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 +2,190 14.5%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +5 +2,624 268.3%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +137 53.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +182 7.8%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +43 +23,230 13.4%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +75 22.8%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -2 -510 -52.9%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -2 +824 2.1%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 -16 -7.6%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 -26 -5.9%
  Totals: +63 +71,075 +17.9%

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 906,727; in 2000 it was 1,100,491. The total population changed 21.4%. The adherent totals for 1990 (457,106) represent 50.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (477,302) include 43.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 37 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 37 groups had 396,994 adherents in 1990 and 468,069 adherents in 2000, for a change of 17.9%

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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