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