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Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

181,108 63,039 195 6,496 2,540 226,713
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 10 4,129 9.5
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 16 2,105 4.9
Catholic Church Catholic 7 5,100 11.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 51 0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 3 775 1.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 77 18,526 42.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 12 2,985 6.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 27 2,222 5.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 n.a. 0.0
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 18 1,363 3.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 10 851 2.0
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 26 3,029 7.0
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 3 261 0.6
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 8 2,691 6.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 10 2,231 5.1
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 60 0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 4 360 0.8
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 133 0.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 661 1.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 65 14,336 33.1
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 15 1,563 3.6
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 4 644 1.5
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada Evangelical Protestant 1 18 0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 5 565 1.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 267 108,138 249.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 198 49,148 113.3
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 797 221,945  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 433,638. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (221,945) include 51.2% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.