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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	197	155,242	163.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	145	48,899	51.5
Catholic Church	Catholic	109	189,377	199.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	78	10,111	10.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	53	22,019	23.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	50	17,781	18.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	31	13,895	14.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	29	9,506	10.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	27	4,535	4.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	25	3,501	3.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	24	9,002	9.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	22	7,641	8.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	21	7,497	7.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	20	5,336	5.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	14	4,382	4.6
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	14	692	0.7
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	12	3,863	4.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,800	1.9
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	229	0.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,558	2.7
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	13,180	13.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	7	2,760	2.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	7	8,940	9.4
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	6	174	0.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	563	0.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,750	2.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	592	0.6
Central Baptist Association Ministries	Evangelical Protestant	3	305	0.3
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	624	0.7
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	103	0.1
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	625	0.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	176	0.2
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	220	0.2
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.1
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.0
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	133	0.1
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	449	0.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	158	0.2
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	14	0.0
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	400	0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	20	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	93	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	72	0.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	45,371	47.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	976	595,783

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 948,829. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (595,783) include 62.8% 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.