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Knoxville, TN MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

305,319 80,812 898 22,620 10,004 267,596
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 20 12,333 22.6
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 17 1,011 1.9
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 4 679 1.2
Catholic Church Catholic 12 12,717 23.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 166 0.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 4 1,273 2.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 18 2,934 5.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 4 441 0.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 40 4,999 9.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 5 1,486 2.7
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 59 0.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 10 963 1.8
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 36 5,611 10.3
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 12 2,557 4.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 11 4,573 8.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 11 3,271 6.0
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 4 382 0.7
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 40 0.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 3 791 1.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 1,187 2.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 50 15,538 28.4
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 3 481 0.9
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 237 0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 6 1,133 2.1
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 440 222,783 407.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 783 1.4
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 1 197 0.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 152 52,365 95.8
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 1 50 0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 53 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 875 351,093  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 546,488. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (351,093) include 64.2% 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.