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Denominational Groups, 2000

194,171 159,798 10,727 537,598 31,860 755,418
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 +2 -1,326 -15.1%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 0 -720 -72.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +5 +1,485 12.8%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +2 +990 310.3%
Catholic Church Catholic -29 +25,952 5.1%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -5 -0.2%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -13 -6.5%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +81 40.9%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +163 20.3%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 -59 -8.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +305 93.6%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -1 +9 9.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +6 +1,352 39.8%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -581 -39.2%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -2 -30 -1.5%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +52 162.5%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -746 -7.6%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +873 69.5%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -8,027 -8.8%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -6 -5.4%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -167 -74.6%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -2 +2,350 41.6%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 -4,975 -51.7%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant -1 -42 -62.7%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +4 -6,875 -24.2%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 -1,858 -2.5%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 0 -18 -26.9%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant +3 -7 -0.1%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +135 9.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -1 -2,408 -18.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +2 +192 246.2%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -430 -28.6%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +3,778 580.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -1 -24 -0.9%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +3 +3,675 56.2%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 +101 5.6%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -5 -2,857 -15.3%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +1 -2,558 -9.4%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +764 141.5%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +5 -2,269 -3.9%
  Totals: 0 +6,256 +.7%

The population of these 5 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,607,183; in 2000 it was 1,689,572. The total population changed 5.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (978,786) represent 60.9% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (934,154) include 55.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 40 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 40 groups had 904,734 adherents in 1990 and 910,990 adherents in 2000, for a change of .7%

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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