Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CA CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,167,703	514,964	83,825	5,688,881	1,065,974	7,852,298
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	452	4,231,735	291.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	184	622,595	42.8
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	334,825	23.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	590	236,707	16.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	391	229,145	15.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	295	119,766	8.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	248	112,555	7.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	211	110,970	7.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	288	102,669	7.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	416	94,143	6.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	214	87,651	6.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	314	81,440	5.6
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	64	78,500	5.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	151	77,660	5.3
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	59	70,595	4.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	173	69,764	4.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	169	44,582	3.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	246	39,452	2.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	111	38,291	2.6
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	29	30,813	2.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	96	24,397	1.7
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	57	23,551	1.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	90	23,276	1.6
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	71	21,449	1.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	45	12,647	0.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	84	10,659	0.7
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	3	9,000	0.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	52	8,860	0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	63	7,680	0.5
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	7,458	0.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	44	6,915	0.5
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	8	6,912	0.5
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	23	6,627	0.5
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	27	6,299	0.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	35	5,153	0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	55	5,072	0.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	26	4,299	0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	30	4,381	0.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	24	3,936	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	16	3,722	0.3
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	46	3,579	0.3
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	19	2,646	0.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	26	2,637	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	25	2,272	0.2
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,986	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,062	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	35	1,683	0.1
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	4	1,539	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	19	1,313	0.1
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	882	0.1
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	2	805	0.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	9	788	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	14	720	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	10	693	0.1
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	596	0.0
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	4	647	0.0
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	574	0.0
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	431	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	429	0.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	495	0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	394	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	2	257	0.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	6	347	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	198	0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	215	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	87	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	3	129	0.0
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	88	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	95	0.0
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	2	102	0.0
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	107	0.0
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	111	0.0
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.0
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	0.0
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	4	34	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	123	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	5	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	7	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	15	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	69	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	15	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	52	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	6,047	7,045,177

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 14,531,529. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (7,045,177) include 48.5% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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^†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.