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	21.1
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	3	0	0.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	606	1.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	20	2,314	4.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	583	1.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	11,101	18.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	13	15,477	26.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	128	0.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	5	1,074	1.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	18	3,629	6.2
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	6	323	0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	44	8,245	14.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	6	353	0.6
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	3	72	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	6	2,151	3.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,037	1.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	36	5,225	8.9
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	3,710	6.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	15	6,581	11.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	295	0.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	8	3,841	6.6
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	18	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	6	422	0.7
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,800	4.8
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	11	6,940	11.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	23	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	217	0.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	4	1,440	2.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,642	2.8
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	96	0.2
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,408	2.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	48	13,708	23.4
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	7	3,755	6.4
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	8	312	0.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	173	0.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,535	2.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	435	240,121	409.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	957	1.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	142	0.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	149	52,478	89.6
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	172	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	98	0.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	947	407,577

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 585,960. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (407,577) include 69.6% 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.