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Lansing-East Lansing, MI MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

44,549 40,210 1,011 73,978 8,357 279,623
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 15 5,672 13.1
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 15 7,132 16.5
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 477 1.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 277 0.6
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 10,987 25.4
Catholic Church Catholic 22 58,930 136.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 174 0.4
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 50 0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 447 1.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 9 2,474 5.7
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 4 1,287 3.0
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 5 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 4 856 2.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 6 548 1.3
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 44 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 1,322 3.1
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 99 0.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 17 3,092 7.2
Church of the United Brethren in Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 621 1.4
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 8 601 1.4
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 295 0.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 10 2,588 6.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 110 0.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 11 5,151 11.9
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 5 0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 8 1,019 2.4
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 58 0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 6 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 3 1,080 2.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 5 4,800 11.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 2 84 0.2
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 2,100 4.9
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 76 0.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 14 6,009 13.9
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 2 86 0.2
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 60 0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 4 2,514 5.8
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 324 0.8
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 3 400 0.9
Old Regular Baptists Evangelical Protestant 2 49 0.1
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 2 154 0.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 11 4,872 11.3
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 671 1.6
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 246 0.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 12 1,963 4.5
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 7 2,611 6.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 479 1.1
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 14 5,934 13.7
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 61 16,928 39.1
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 6 1,373 3.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 5 2,676 6.2
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 329 159,805  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 432,674. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (159,805) include 36.9% 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.