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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
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +186 +111,507 399.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +116 +327,535 3460.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +82 +653,457 282.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +78 +22,511 944.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +69 +24,008 1590.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +51 +11,120 629.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +45 +11,141 46.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +31 +7,249 229.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +30 +5,804 272.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +29 +10,461 110.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +29 +10,741 774.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +25 +1,232 n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +23 +1,574 317.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +22 +4,208 50.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +20 +9,743 137.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +16 -271 -2.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +15 +1,324 158.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +15 +2,610 4500.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +13 +1,750 30.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +12 +873 n.a.
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +11 +4,006 188.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +9 +5,313 n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +8 +815 n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +7 +864 n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +7 +1,595 127.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +6 +3,975 n.a.
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +5 +686 201.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +670 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +5 +4,500 n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant +4 -1,044 -25.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +4 +934 268.0%
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant +4 +221 127.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +3 +863 n.a.
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +3 +199 n.a.
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant +3 +477 191.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant +3 +276 64.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox +2 +2,300 n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,035 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 -11 -5.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +2 +312 123.0%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) Evangelical Protestant +2 +60 n.a.
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +522 n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +239 520.0%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant +1 +70 n.a.
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox +1 +207 n.a.
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -1,619 -64.0%
  Totals: +1,008 +1,246,042 +344.6%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 1,018,200; in 2000 it was 3,876,380. The total population changed 21.4%. The adherent totals for 1980 (363,255) represent 35.7% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 46 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 46 groups had 361,549 adherents in 1980 and 1,607,591 adherents in 2000, for a change of 344.6%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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