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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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	240	159,545	100.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	171	80,853	51.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	118	199,804	126.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	104	44,593	28.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	88	21,614	13.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	75	36,200	22.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	70	10,978	6.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	58	30,825	19.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	55	18,054	11.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	45	14,189	9.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	34	13,013	8.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	31	12,817	8.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	30	6,854	4.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	29	13,079	8.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	28	8,233	5.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	20	13,133	8.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	18	6,074	3.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,720	1.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	14	12,550	7.9
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	13	n.a.	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,276	0.8
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,794	1.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	9	346	0.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	9	19,100	12.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	9	666	0.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	8	515	0.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,057	0.7
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	7	716	0.5
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	6	494	0.3
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,328	1.5
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	6	462	0.3
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	n.a.	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	788	0.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	587	0.4
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	736	0.5
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	4	188	0.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	267	0.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	824	0.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	729	0.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	3	450	0.3
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	482	0.3
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	164	0.1
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	166	0.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	191	0.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	534	0.3
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.0
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	43	0.0
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	41	0.0
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	186	0.1
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	78	0.1
Berean Fundamental Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	176	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	118	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	23	0.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	212	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	1	47	0.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	114	0.1
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	138	0.1
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	1	6	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	62,712	39.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,413	802,966

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,582,875. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (802,966) include 50.7% 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.