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Denominational Groups, 2000

20,898 51,497 2,950 97,861 856 58,559
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
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 0 -1 -4.8%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 -1,267 -64.1%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox 0 +265 20.1%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +238 19.6%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +5 2.2%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant +1 -439 -41.2%
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 0 0 0.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -34 +922 1.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -2 +110 5.4%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -5 -1.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +3 -359 -25.8%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 +48 33.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -1 +123 12.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology -1 -115 -16.7%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -850 -10.2%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -211 -18.4%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -55 -24.7%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 +314 54.7%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -105 -14.9%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -2 -2,846 -12.7%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -2 -155 -36.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +20 7.3%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -1 -71 -4.9%
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant +3 -222 -29.6%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox -1 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -797 -22.9%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +29 26.1%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +173 154.5%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -1 +7 5.5%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 0 +29 9.1%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -3 -969 -19.6%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -5 -2,376 -9.2%
  Totals: -49 -8,560 -4.8%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 241,247; in 2000 it was 232,621. The total population changed -3.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (180,708) represent 74.9% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (174,062) include 74.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 31 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 31 groups had 179,685 adherents in 1990 and 171,125 adherents in 2000, for a change of -4.8%

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 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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