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Modesto, CA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

61,374 12,273 4,502 105,628 11,669 251,551
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 +1 +173 17.5%
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses Orthodox +1 +91 2.8%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -2 +2,550 28.4%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +8 2.7%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 +26 n.a.
Catholic Church Catholic -1 +39,545 59.8%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -208 -58.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -172 -20.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +349 35.9%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +361 43.5%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -1 +162 105.9%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +92 19.2%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 +16 19.5%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology -2 +1,094 11.7%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -213 -26.2%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +2 +499 36.7%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 -146 -5.8%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +2 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 -366 -16.8%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +159 15.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -345 -24.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +87 25.1%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant -1 -79 -28.2%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -2 -6,025 -78.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +3 +658 69.3%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant -1 +129 131.6%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +50 11.1%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +114 6.0%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +151 151.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 0 -193 -43.2%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +110 333.3%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 -383 -30.2%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -161 -6.4%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +123 38.9%
Reformed Church in the United States Evangelical Protestant 0 +52 96.3%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +14,517 7258.5%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -720 -19.4%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +1 +2,065 24.6%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -3 -2.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -164 -28.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 -832 -16.9%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +171 128.6%
  Totals: +5 +53,342 +39.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 370,522; in 2000 it was 446,997. The total population changed 20.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (139,238) represent 37.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (195,446) include 43.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 41 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 41 groups had 136,550 adherents in 1990 and 189,892 adherents in 2000, for a change of 39.1%

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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