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Denominational Groups, 2000

97,536 22,586   12,957 3,171 72,530
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 Association, The Evangelical Protestant +1 -770 -39.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +92 4.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 +446 8.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +5 +9,625 289.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -549 -78.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -2 -440 -15.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +155 127.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -709 -86.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +6 +599 185.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +3 +102 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +3 +766 36.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -2 +124 16.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +11 +1,829 29.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant -2 -738 -43.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -84 -4.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +122 29.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +372 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +550 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +2,650 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 +32 178.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 -22 -18.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -49 -16.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +2 +62 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -11 -223 -9.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +90 66.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +27 11.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +4 +20,383 39.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 +15 n.a.
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +1 +519 n.a.
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -2 -777 -5.0%
  Totals: +26 +34,199 +33.6%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 180,347; in 2000 it was 208,780. The total population changed 7.7%. The adherent totals for 1980 (101,865) represent 56.5% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (136,250) include 65.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 30 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 30 groups had 101,800 adherents in 1980 and 135,999 adherents in 2000, for a change of 33.6%

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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