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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 % Change
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 0 -19 -61.3%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 +400 5.2%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +4 +1,463 15.4%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -61 -45.9%
Catholic Church Catholic -12 +14,703 7.8%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -313 -52.9%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant +2 +1,143 8.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 -1,226 -5.6%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +2 -466 -25.9%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,559 44.5%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -2 -6 -0.9%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +5 +887 32.1%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -5 -1,338 -29.5%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -3 -224 -2.2%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -113 -18.1%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 -263 -3.5%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -11 -6.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -2 -855 -16.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +26 130.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 0 0.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +42 1.5%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -2 -240 -2.7%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 +500 11.4%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +2 +308 194.9%
Old Missionary Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant +3 +159 35.4%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -3,977 -22.4%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +60 107.1%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +720 127.9%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +2 -5 -0.2%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +43 +499 0.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -51 -8.2%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -3 -2,161 -24.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -14 -9,460 -19.3%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +422 184.3%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +24 25.8%
  Totals: +24 +2,126 +.4%

The population of these 7 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 948,829; in 2000 it was 1,025,598. The total population changed 8.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (595,783) represent 62.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (542,761) include 52.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 35 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 35 groups had 532,045 adherents in 1990 and 534,171 adherents in 2000, for a change of .4%

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 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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