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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^†
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	529	0.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	52	14,250	8.0
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	95	0.1
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	1	245	0.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	86	29,785	16.8
Bahá'í	Other Theology	6	642	0.4
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	423	0.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	7	597	0.3
Buddhism	Other Theology	7	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	110	273,234	153.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,266	0.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	93	49,133	27.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	34	9,555	5.4
Christian Union	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,544	0.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,335	1.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	8	510	0.3
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	85	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	5	169	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	42	15,305	8.6
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	6	437	0.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	58	18,899	10.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	69	9,798	5.5
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	178	0.1
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	63	15,057	8.5
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	42	0.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	33	13,265	7.5
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,671	1.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,330	0.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	30	13,328	7.5
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	481	0.3
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	5	282	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	11	694	0.4
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,676	0.9
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	930	0.5
Hindu	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	8	7,200	4.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	18	11,202	6.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	155	0.1
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	649	0.4
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	582	0.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	602	0.3
Jain	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	9	19,175	10.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	58	33,225	18.7
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	2	181	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	896	0.5
Mennonite; Other Groups	Evangelical Protestant	1	59	0.0
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	5	7,500	4.2
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,254	0.7
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	143	0.1
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	2	284	0.2
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	215	0.1
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	171	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,223	0.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	73	30,947	17.4
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	5	716	0.4
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	8	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	236	0.1
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	1	81	0.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	3,739	2.1
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	1	387	0.2
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA (New Gracanica Metropolitanate)	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	21	5,975	3.4
Sikh	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	260	159,858	90.0
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	764	0.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	23	6,489	3.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	166	78,684	44.3
United Reformed Churches in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	110	0.1
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	302	0.2
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,329	0.8
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,258	1.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	756	0.4
Zoroastrian	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,552	856,117
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		1,040,184

The population of these 11 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,582,875; in 2000 it was 1,776,062. The total population changed 12.2%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (856,117) include 48.2% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (1,040,184) include 58.6% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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