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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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+28	+23,579	203.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+20	+6,650	114.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+16	+10,968	189.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+16	+7,212	164.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+15	+888	1.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+13	+33,124	426.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+19,086	112.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+8,225	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+798	29.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+1,914	216.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+12,380	n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+7	+68,354	20.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+7	-5,857	-9.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+7	-1,971	-9.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+1,167	n.a.
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+1,357	76.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+618	803.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+866	103.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+3,979	2368.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+2,278	22.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+45	2.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+174	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+219	n.a.
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+3	+2,783	86.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+552	105.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+3	+1,162	42.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+3	+1,569	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+2	+3,228	n.a.
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+887	81.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+231	n.a.
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+2	-164	-42.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+446	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+2,069	95.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+2	+1,094	89.0%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+110	n.a.
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	+1	+109	13.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	+1	+175	n.a.
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+21	28.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-48	-3.0%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-3	-38.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	+283	354.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+208,195	38.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-151	-61.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-338	-78.0%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-307	-19.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+489	30.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-6,394	-18.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-1,781	-49.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-3	-3,306	-13.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-4	-2,140	-19.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-5	-5,125	-21.0%
	Totals:	+240	+399,699	+31.9%

The population of these 13 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 2,198,190; in 2000 it was 2,968,806. The total population changed 16.9%. The adherent totals for 1980 (1,255,521) represent 57.1% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 51 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 51 groups had 1,253,162 adherents in 1980 and 1,652,861 adherents in 2000, for a change of 31.9%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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