Lexington, KY MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

131,182	57,225	450	34,085	7,844	248,412
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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	138	78,749	164.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	53	27,484	57.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	47	27,185	56.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	41	15,332	32.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	29	7,650	16.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	27	3,062	6.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	22	5,204	10.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	18	3,157	6.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,702	5.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	16	34,085	71.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	14	5,171	10.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	12	3,628	7.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,631	3.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,300	2.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	698	1.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	1,345	2.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	959	2.0
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	271	0.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	4	485	1.0
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	387	0.8
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	903	1.9
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	3	1,718	3.6
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	697	1.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	3	2,000	4.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	397	0.8
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	351	0.7
Buddhism	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	117	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	122	0.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	180	0.4
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	71	0.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	340	0.7
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	302	0.6
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	147	0.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	83	0.2
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,350	2.8
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	76	0.2
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	72	0.2
Bahá'í	Other Theology	1	158	0.3
Conservative Mennonite Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	0.1
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	24	0.1
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	43	0.1
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.1
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	1	180	0.4
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	270	0.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	400	0.8
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	32	0.1
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	49	0.1
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	164	0.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	537	230,786
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		272,823

The population of these 7 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 405,936; in 2000 it was 479,198. The total population changed 18.0%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (230,786) include 48.2% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (272,823) include 56.9% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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