Kalamazoo-Battle Creek, MI MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

58,281	46,393	73	43,152	5,359	299,593
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	1	492	1.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	12	3,866	9.0
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	16	0.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,853	9.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	263	0.6
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	328	0.8
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	13,520	31.5
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	21	49,708	115.8
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	85	0.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	331	0.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,496	3.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	21	6,752	15.7
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	5	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,013	2.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	5	601	1.4
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	78	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	3	133	0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	3	678	1.6
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	149	0.4
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	121	0.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,749	4.1
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	73	0.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,278	3.0
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.1
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	2	150	0.4
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	192	0.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	11	4,223	9.8
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	50	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	9	3,808	8.9
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	182	0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	6	732	1.7
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	297	0.7
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	12	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	600	1.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	2,125	5.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	149	0.4
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	128	0.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	37	0.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	4	1,180	2.8
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	588	1.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	12	6,988	16.3
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	80	0.2
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	384	0.9
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	124	0.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	127	0.3
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	1	360	0.8
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.1
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	44	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	5	617	1.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	14	6,892	16.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	20	10,253	23.9
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	402	0.9
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	206	0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,206	7.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,870	6.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	442	1.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	12	4,458	10.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	53	15,580	36.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,748	6.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,079	2.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	386	158,013

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 429,453. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (158,013) include 36.8% 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.