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