Lima, OH MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

19,404	30,687	50	36,880	1,341	66,722
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	+1	+79	4.9%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+28	3.5%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+9,304	33.7%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+412	33.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+142	11.5%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-5	-600	-54.3%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-105	-15.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+79	14.7%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-151	-13.6%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-3	+116	4.1%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-69	-16.4%
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-8	-11.6%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-182	-56.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-2	-184	-2.8%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+71	78.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-450	-25.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	-185	-50.7%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-4	-0.6%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-266	-20.6%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+213	68.3%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-8	-6.3%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+334	439.5%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-214	-14.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,582	1235.9%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+227	18.7%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+1	3.3%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-3	-1,340	-16.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-3	-3,348	-21.1%
Wayne Trail Missionary Baptist Association	Evangelical Protestant	0	+201	14.3%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+46	18.5%
	Totals:	-18	+5,721	+7.2%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 154,340; in 2000 it was 155,084. The total population changed 0.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (84,164) represent 54.5% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (88,362) include 57.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 30 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 30 groups had 79,510 adherents in 1990 and 85,231 adherents in 2000, for a change of 7.2%

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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