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	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	+10	+290,421	48.9%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+87	+33,162	31.2%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+25	+12,647	103.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+27	+7,665	42.9%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+4,554	54.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+11	+4,279	54.5%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	+15	+1,885	872.7%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+1,648	161.6%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,464	105.3%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+1,031	14.9%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+656	305.1%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+577	81.7%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+541	163.0%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+522	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+473	28.0%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+470	205.2%
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	+2	+356	72.4%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+326	94.8%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+314	44.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+240	13.1%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+169	15.9%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	0	+153	283.3%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	+152	99.3%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	-8	+92	11.9%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+10	3.6%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	0	-2	-2.8%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-16	-21.1%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-41	-17.1%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-140	-19.8%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	-156	-18.1%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-179	-18.0%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	0	-220	-44.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-294	-58.9%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-333	-4.2%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-398	-27.8%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+7	-623	-3.6%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-949	-8.4%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-3	-1,846	-37.1%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-3	-2,877	-31.9%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-2	-3,001	-19.3%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-8	-3,133	-77.3%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-6	-3,609	-24.1%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-2	-5,339	-21.1%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-8	-5,385	-54.5%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-5,553	-51.1%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-11	-10,631	-23.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+11	-40,800	-10.8%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	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	-2	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+186	+278,282	+21.0%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 3,192,582; in 2000 it was 3,876,380. The total population changed 21.4%. The adherent totals for 1990 (1,516,013) represent 47.5% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,637,079) include 42.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 47 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 47 groups had 1,326,153 adherents in 1990 and 1,604,435 adherents in 2000, for a change of 21.0%

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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