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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
Catholic Church Catholic +10 +142,190 119.6%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +15 +56,100 293.7%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +69 +25,227 39.7%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +15 +14,063 271.2%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +24 +9,777 42.5%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -2 +6,351 256.6%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +3 +2,540 34.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 +1,572 52.6%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -2 +1,150 67.6%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 +1,121 19.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +3 +1,119 19.2%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +3 +869 131.1%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +801 206.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +4 +694 20.8%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +476 20.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +444 140.1%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +7 +400 17.5%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +2 +314 570.9%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +4 +236 28.8%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +200 n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +159 32.4%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +3 +133 316.7%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +2 +112 145.5%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +81 32.7%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 +73 102.8%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +70 120.7%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +49 64.5%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 0 0.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 -15 -14.9%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +1 -36 -9.7%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +4 -141 -7.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -334 -21.5%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -1 -1,210 -52.6%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +2 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
  Totals: +178 +264,585 +96.7%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 852,737; in 2000 it was 1,563,282. The total population changed 83.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (292,944) represent 34.4% of the 1990 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 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 33 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 33 groups had 273,742 adherents in 1990 and 538,327 adherents in 2000, for a change of 96.7%

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 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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