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Denominational Groups, 2000

127,043 33,525 87 37,589 4,332 281,348
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
Catholic Church Catholic +2 +12,297 48.6%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +589 4.5%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +556 32.3%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant +1 +148 197.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -117 -22.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +716 46.7%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +2 +97 8.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,682 28.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 +23 18.1%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 +971 32.5%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 -295 -7.3%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -23 -17.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +136 66.7%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,650 60.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -1 -550 -28.2%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +556 3706.7%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +104 2.2%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +45 52.9%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +5 +411 58.1%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +21 25.6%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +3 -215 -20.8%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant 0 +17 38.6%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +163 59.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +5 +366 39.2%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +21 +632 0.9%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -10 -4.5%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 +38 45.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +66 5.1%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -94 -2.1%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +415 30.5%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +18 150.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 +1 0.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -3 -1.5%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -1,908 -9.2%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +5 +658 31.9%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +1,300 n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +59 62.8%
  Totals: +49 +20,520 +11.8%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 405,382; in 2000 it was 483,924. The total population changed 19.4%. The adherent totals for 1990 (191,721) represent 47.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (202,576) include 41.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 37 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 37 groups had 173,980 adherents in 1990 and 194,500 adherents in 2000, for a change of 11.8%

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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