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