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Denominational Groups, 2000

172,956 53,610 939 46,503 5,259 260,991
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 29 16,826 37.9
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 9 1,080 2.4
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 51 8,274 18.7
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 8 1,762 4.0
Catholic Church Catholic 50 37,605 84.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 211 0.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 6 878 2.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 1,125 2.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 6 774 1.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 34 4,404 9.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 3 1,277 2.9
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 111 0.3
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 6 732 1.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 23 3,878 8.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 22 9,182 20.7
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 135 0.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 4 798 1.8
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 158 0.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 12 1,072 2.4
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 690 1.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 12 3,969 9.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 21 6,812 15.4
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 3 133 0.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 844 1.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 6 1,639 3.7
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 136 107,632 242.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 107 0.2
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 68 26,460 59.7
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant n.a. 20 0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 71 0.2
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 526 238,659  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 443,536. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (238,659) include 53.8% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.