Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

284,950	92,450	10,563	884,757	364,359	2,239,301
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	594,336	186.2
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	121	0.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,611	0.5
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	72	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	2	76	0.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	65	12,250	3.8
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	215	0.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	185,618	58.1
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	216	0.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	21	1,831	0.6
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,760	0.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,390	0.4
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	713	0.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,691	0.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	62	8,334	2.6
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	25	1,063	0.3
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	153	0.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	29	6,911	2.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	44	11,359	3.6
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	275	0.1
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,433	0.5
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	15	772	0.2
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	7	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	13	10,866	3.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	13	9,885	3.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	10	332	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,020	0.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	23	7,882	2.5
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	5	229	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	6	994	0.3
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	6	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	20	17,471	5.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	706	0.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	38	0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	51	17,853	5.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	133	106,307	33.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	344	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	499	0.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	10	4,054	1.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	15	4,977	1.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	47	25,332	7.9
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	2	141	0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	38	15,542	4.9
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	3	240	0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	94	0.0
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	1	492	0.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	430	0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	41	14,993	4.7
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	861	0.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	20	9,020	2.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	83	46,254	14.5
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	1	54	0.0
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	47	0.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	500	0.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	6	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	5	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	17	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	22	7,850	2.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	118	377,800	118.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	706	0.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,188	1,516,013

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 3,192,582. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,516,013) include 47.5% 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.