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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 % Change
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +5,984 21.3%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 0 +15 125.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +1 -830 -20.8%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +644 98.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -3 +5,776 27.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 -116 -6.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +6 +1,987 61.8%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -1 -38 -23.8%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -2 -883 -24.6%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -3 -11 -0.4%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -57 -64.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +340 95.2%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +358 917.9%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +28 3.0%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 -6 -7.8%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +1 +119 65.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +40 17.3%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +2 +200 70.2%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +167 90.8%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -1 -59 -7.8%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +21 +4,938 6.7%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -25 -6.1%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +12 38.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -5 -687 -4.3%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +178 3.6%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -372 -21.7%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +51 53.1%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -3 -157 -2.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 +22 44.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 +1,342 5.1%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +6 +1,155 46.7%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 0 0.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +50 17.2%
  Totals: +26 +20,165 +9.8%

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 adherent totals for 1990 (220,013) represent 54.2% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (230,786) include 48.2% 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 204,921 adherents in 1990 and 225,086 adherents in 2000, for a change of 9.8%

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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