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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 -152 -4.6%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +5 -80 -0.8%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant -2 -215 -15.8%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 0 0.0%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +8 11.6%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +1,831 3.5%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +1 -19 -22.9%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -2 +7,397 71.6%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,070 62.9%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +2 +1 0.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -4 +144 5.3%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 +17 6.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +5 +1,188 39.7%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +4 -105 -4.6%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +3 -1,221 -4.4%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant -1 -931 -24.9%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -12 -6,288 -56.8%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +60 100.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -2 -530 -24.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +4,681 116.2%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +30 57.7%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -6 -2,300 -44.7%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -1 -8,940 -70.1%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +210 27.5%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 -1,501 -15.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +67 1.3%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant -3 -172 -34.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +1 -33 -13.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -4 -927 -6.7%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +2 +2,429 417.4%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +213 64.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -1 +40 1.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +13 +1,885 0.8%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 +108 15.6%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 +329 137.7%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -6 +3,555 6.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +44 440.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +20 13.5%
  Totals: 0 +1,913 +.4%

The population of these 5 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,007,306; in 2000 it was 1,135,614. The total population changed 12.7%. The adherent totals for 1990 (592,014) represent 58.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (485,356) include 42.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 38 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 38 groups had 475,482 adherents in 1990 and 477,395 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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