Missoula, MT MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

7,627	7,012	165	12,074	4,128	64,796
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
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+16	n.a.
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-119	-40.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+429	36.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+2	+3,547	42.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+646	249.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-126	-36.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+52	32.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+28	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+1,134	46.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-38	-25.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+99	52.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+199	24.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+45	n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-330	-10.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+64	n.a.
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+2	+53	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+165	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+228	256.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-333	-24.0%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-138	-40.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+150	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+198	25.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+89	61.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+129	43.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+872	224.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+6	17.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+111	22.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-450	-36.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+56	133.0%
	Totals:	+20	+6,782	+29.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 76,016; in 2000 it was 95,802. The total population changed 21.8%. The adherent totals for 1980 (23,271) represent 30.6% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (31,006) include 32.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 29 groups had 23,177 adherents in 1980 and 29,959 adherents in 2000, for a change of 29.3%

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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