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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.
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Reports


Religious Bodies Theology Congregations Adherents % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -2 -136 -1.5%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 0 +41 59.4%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 0 -4 -44.4%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -1 +12,371 54.2%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant +1 -485 -14.8%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +11 +15,866 78.6%
Catholic Church Catholic -3 +115,852 18.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +1 -968 -7.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +151 9.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +197 10.3%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +485 32.4%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -1 -61 -39.4%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +4 +280 35.1%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +35 58.3%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 +50 40.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +8 +3,341 36.6%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +2 +206 11.8%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -3 -375 -18.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -5 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant +3 +3,881 1459.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -2 -814 -4.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +3,934 30.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 +26,431 6.8%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -1 -20 -17.4%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -235 -51.1%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -6 +3,055 32.8%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 -95 -1.1%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +529 318.7%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +8,088 24.6%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +6 -887 -1.1%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant +1 +320 254.0%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant +1 -81 -23.5%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 0 -125 -11.8%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant +2 -1,595 -20.9%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 -325 -19.5%
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +1 -12 -5.2%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -3 -2,782 -8.9%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +26 12.7%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -293 -11.2%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +2,941 225.9%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +5 +763 27.1%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +4 +125 4.1%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology -1 -737 -15.8%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -4 -5,383 -19.2%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +5 -9,251 -14.1%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +121 11.6%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +4 -2,610 -11.4%
  Totals: +38 +171,815 +11.8%

The population of these 13 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 2,538,834; in 2000 it was 2,968,806. The total population changed 16.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (1,496,346) represent 58.9% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,676,905) include 56.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 46 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 46 groups had 1,461,397 adherents in 1990 and 1,633,212 adherents in 2000, for a change of 11.8%

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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