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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.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	328	389,811	153.5
Catholic Church	Catholic	226	645,089	254.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	138	65,452	25.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	118	80,211	31.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	81	22,805	9.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	61	31,239	12.3
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	60	20,182	8.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	54	28,049	11.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	53	12,826	5.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	52	20,258	8.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	52	22,875	9.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	37	12,580	5.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	25	9,289	3.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	24	9,132	3.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	21	32,812	12.9
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	19	n.a.	n.a.
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,080	0.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,815	1.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	15	9,325	3.7
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,284	1.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,030	1.2
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	13	n.a.	n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,919	0.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	12	4,664	1.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,746	0.7
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	10	8,320	3.3
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,668	0.7
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,046	0.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,302	0.5
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	7	2,617	1.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	6	1,653	0.7
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	6	595	0.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,499	0.6
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	5	166	0.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	5	798	0.3
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	344	0.1
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	4	1,059	0.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	4	460	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	4	124	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	7,632	3.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	714	0.3
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	231	0.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	266	0.1
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	848	0.3
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	115	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,126	0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	3	155	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	2	529	0.2
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	595	0.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	2	205	0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	949	0.4
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	69	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	9	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	126	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	96	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	0.0
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	123	0.1
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	29,314	11.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,605	1,496,346

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 2,538,834. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,496,346) include 58.9% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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^†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.