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