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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -3 -3,804 -21.1%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 0 +52 120.9%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -2 +8,171 37.8%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +232 121.5%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant +2 -139 -18.9%
Catholic Church Catholic -8 +73,430 36.8%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +537 73.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -11 +4,540 10.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +4 +2,701 39.4%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -1 +615 35.8%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -1 -156 -23.4%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +7 9.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -4 -177 -51.2%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +11 +2,488 19.4%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -57 -11.5%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +13 +4,710 33.2%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 -1,180 -10.7%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -8 -4.3%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -124 -74.7%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +4 +186 1.4%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +743 126.6%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -4 +315 2.4%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -1 -0.2%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +3 +118 72.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +3 +179 34.8%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -6 -5,350 -42.6%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -2 -1,931 -14.7%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 -57 -26.9%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +579 2517.4%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +75 0.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +2,400 7.8%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant +1 +43 31.2%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -3 +180 25.1%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +2 -22 -1.7%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +143 n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +4 +761 164.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 -5,253 -14.5%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +2 +266 59.1%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -298 -55.8%
Reformed Church in the United States Evangelical Protestant 0 +34 72.3%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +2,682 253.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +3 -99 -1.6%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +20 +313 0.2%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 -60 -7.3%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -5 -1,744 -21.2%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -5 -2,169 -2.7%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +464 25.9%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 -32 -4.1%
  Totals: +21 +84,303 +11.4%

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 adherent totals for 1990 (802,966) represent 50.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (856,117) include 48.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 48 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 48 groups had 736,932 adherents in 1990 and 821,235 adherents in 2000, for a change of 11.4%

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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