Memphis, TN-AR-MS MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

308,728	103,363	1,501	54,764	17,000	650,258
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	193	191,614	204.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	133	61,981	66.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	87	24,410	26.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	54	19,910	21.2
Catholic Church	Catholic	37	44,527	47.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	36	8,532	9.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	29	13,128	14.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	24	2,439	2.6
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	20	3,489	3.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	20	6,732	7.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,520	2.7
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	3,757	4.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	12	3,962	4.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,545	2.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,841	2.0
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,297	1.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	8	2,127	2.3
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,760	1.9
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	917	1.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	6	2,425	2.6
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,176	1.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	4	2,802	3.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	4	774	0.8
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	3	236	0.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	3,707	4.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	449	0.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	467	0.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	278	0.3
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	78	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	12	0.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	180	0.2
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	69	0.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.1
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	50	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	84	0.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	764	410,325

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 938,777. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (410,325) include 43.7% 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.