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Louisville, KY-IN MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

225,374 95,830 1,660 204,080 15,817 482,837
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 107 198,245 207.8
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 182 146,381 153.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 147 51,771 54.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 84 20,364 21.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 52 15,506 16.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 34 14,546 15.3
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 8 13,180 13.8
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 84 11,508 12.1
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 24 10,650 11.2
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 20 8,387 8.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 19 7,835 8.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 26 6,991 7.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 19 6,065 6.4
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 29 5,229 5.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 11 5,139 5.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 11 4,213 4.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 25 2,874 3.0
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 3 2,798 2.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 9 2,272 2.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 3 1,694 1.8
Separate Baptists in Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 844 0.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 656 0.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 3 501 0.5
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 4 431 0.5
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 2 375 0.4
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 370 0.4
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 102 0.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 90 0.1
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 1 80 0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 70 0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 60 0.1
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 2 58 0.1
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 1 50 0.1
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 10 0.0
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 923 539,345  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 953,850. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (539,345) include 56.5% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.