Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

274,289	563,897	7,521	760,941	70,257	1,291,901
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.
[More information on the data sources]

Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	223	552,746	251.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	320	347,888	158.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	109	78,436	35.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	136	62,058	28.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	59	34,851	15.9
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	53	25,972	11.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	55	24,569	11.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	49	22,236	10.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	59	16,962	7.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	52	11,597	5.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	27	11,293	5.1
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	39	10,444	4.8
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	9	7,776	3.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	12	5,823	2.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	42	5,792	2.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	22	4,400	2.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	16	3,636	1.7
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	3,254	1.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	8	2,765	1.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	13	2,780	1.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,174	1.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,907	0.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	5	1,852	0.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,798	0.8
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,650	0.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,627	0.7
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	1,230	0.6
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,097	0.5
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	885	0.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	839	0.4
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	3	825	0.4
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	697	0.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	6	526	0.2
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	458	0.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	2	432	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	389	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	395	0.2
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	355	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	246	0.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	168	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	146	0.1
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	123	0.1
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	137	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	0.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	80	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	74	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	48	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	8	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,416	1,255,521

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 2,198,190. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,255,521) include 57.1% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.