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Denominational Groups, 2000

83,721 32,587 3,462 261,080 167,448 1,014,984
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 Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +5 +4,669 198.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +24 +13,382 228.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +175 78.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 +7 9.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +9 +188,474 260.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +329 n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +171 36.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +3 +7,059 400.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +3 +369 n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 -42 -23.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +2 +597 364.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +4 +175 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +128 +50,601 132.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +5 +108 11.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +3 +248 16.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +5 +275 69.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +3 +385 16.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +110 n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +7 +6,158 160.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +2 +128 n.a.
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +32 400.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +1,020 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,090 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +2,850 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +9 +1,341 100.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +17 +74,216 7542.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +7 +1,362 51.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +2 +514 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +3 +189 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +2 +1,911 72.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +200 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +6 +798 204.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +366 43.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +41 +20,229 161.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +68 119.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +1 -114 -25.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +8 +2,783 67.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +182 607.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +4 +1,303 569.0%
  Totals: +319 +383,718 +243.7%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 528,000; in 2000 it was 1,563,282. The total population changed 83.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (157,517) represent 29.8% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (548,298) include 35.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 39 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 39 groups had 157,470 adherents in 1980 and 541,188 adherents in 2000, for a change of 243.7%

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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