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Denominational Groups, 2000

329,810 207,910 1,777 273,234 43,386 919,945
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
Catholic Church Catholic 111 194,607 134.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 224 136,177 94.0
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 174 82,310 56.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 105 49,951 34.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 153 44,641 30.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 54 28,300 19.5
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 31 19,404 13.4
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 82 19,213 13.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 51 18,031 12.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 31 13,191 9.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 45 12,139 8.4
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 28 9,517 6.6
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 69 8,768 6.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 32 8,325 5.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 16 6,947 4.8
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 4 6,085 4.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 16 4,727 3.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 6 3,190 2.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 10 3,057 2.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 4 2,150 1.5
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 6 1,872 1.3
Christian Union Evangelical Protestant 10 1,429 1.0
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 5 1,001 0.7
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 817 0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 735 0.5
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 7 662 0.5
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 1 600 0.4
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 5 570 0.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 516 0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 3 498 0.3
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 4 349 0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 7 349 0.2
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 3 351 0.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 294 0.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 288 0.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 291 0.2
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 5 210 0.1
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 165 0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 83 0.1
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 81 0.1
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 77 0.1
Berean Fundamental Church Evangelical Protestant 1 71 0.1
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 1 56 0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 65 0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 28 0.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 19 0.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The Evangelical Protestant 1 11 0.0
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 1,321 682,218  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 1,449,374. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (682,218) include 47.1% 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.