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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 12 4,243 9.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 16 2,187 5.0
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 2,195 5.0
Catholic Church Catholic 8 5,658 13.0
Central Baptist Association Ministries Evangelical Protestant 20 2,682 6.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 198 0.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 4 432 1.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 86 19,329 44.3
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 3 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 15 1,362 3.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 26 2,649 6.1
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 18 0.0
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 9 490 1.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 5 1,599 3.7
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 14 1,009 2.3
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 10 805 1.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 30 3,138 7.2
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 2 147 0.3
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 8 2,673 6.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 7 2,407 5.5
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 61 0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 8 0.0
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 22 0.1
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 3 2,600 6.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 2 149 0.3
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 210 0.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 656 1.5
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 92 12,789 29.3
Old Regular Baptists Evangelical Protestant 2 46 0.1
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 2 117 0.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 59 12,446 28.5
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 19 2,442 5.6
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 38 3,696 8.5
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 3 612 1.4
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada Evangelical Protestant 1 34 0.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 7 851 2.0
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 264 113,616 260.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 174 0.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 192 47,352 108.6
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 975 251,102  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 436,047. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (251,102) include 57.6% 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.