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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 Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-41	-7.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	-3,781	-21.0%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+95	n.a.
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+10,572	55.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+346	449.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-1,275	-68.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+78,627	40.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+972	331.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-12	-818	-2.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,230	15.0%
Christian Union	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+115	8.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+5	-722	-24.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+161	46.0%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+4	5.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+169	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+26	+8,358	120.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-225	-34.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+6,760	56.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1,030	12.0%
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+178	n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-309	-88.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+2	-6,139	-32.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,670	167.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+1,311	6900.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	+137	1.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+481	n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-216	-43.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+7	+345	99.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+2	+930	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+7,200	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+18	+11,202	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-136	-47.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+574	2050.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+5	+13,090	215.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+4,925	17.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+125	223.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+1,254	n.a.
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-22	-13.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+2	+215	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+1,223	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-80	-13,694	-31.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-101	-12.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+236	n.a.
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+81	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+549	17.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+1,248	26.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+36	+23,681	17.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+2	+29	4.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-5	-3,028	-32.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-8	-3,626	-4.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	+2	-298	-50.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+2,258	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+240	46.0%
	Totals:	+114	+147,190	+21.7%

The population of these 11 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 1,449,374; in 2000 it was 1,776,062. The total population changed 12.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (682,218) represent 47.1% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 53 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 53 groups had 679,340 adherents in 1980 and 826,530 adherents in 2000, for a change of 21.7%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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