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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 Association, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +25 4.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +1 -418 -27.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +12 +6,531 93.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 +74 20.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +5 +51,025 101.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +292 36.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -2 -236 -7.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +7 +3,497 131.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +123 212.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 -545 -34.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +10 +2,841 68.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +12 +612 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +3 +3,132 68.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 +123 123.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +4 +823 40.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +6 +2,595 44.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 +3,788 21.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +417 2317.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +2 +1,052 20.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +48 n.a.
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +13 76.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +2 +1,641 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +3 +922 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +8 +8,560 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +3 +458 226.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +5 +1,237 103.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +3 +4,885 202.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +681 31.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +5 +521 n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +2 +241 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +3 +4,065 31.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +11 +3,482 2902.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 -401 -50.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +608 32.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +60 +65,989 51.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +2 +17 4.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -125 -22.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -5 +1,509 4.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant +1 +86 57.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +194 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +147 55.0%
  Totals: +182 +170,529 +56.8%

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 722,252; in 2000 it was 1,100,491. The total population changed 21.4%. The adherent totals for 1980 (301,573) represent 41.8% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 41 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 41 groups had 300,339 adherents in 1980 and 470,868 adherents in 2000, for a change of 56.8%

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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