Monroe, LA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

60,904	13,240	111	7,846	1,875	63,274
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	-1	-767	-21.8%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+21	6.6%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+442	6.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-124	-17.9%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-53	-12.8%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+1,317	95.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+183	26.8%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+20	7.8%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-43	-1.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+305	16.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-36	-28.3%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	-125	-23.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-166	-35.8%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-281	-18.9%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+128	104.9%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+71	74.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+199	58.7%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+405	0.8%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	-2,396	-20.7%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-30	-20.0%
	Totals:	-1	-930	-1.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 142,191; in 2000 it was 147,250. The total population changed 3.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (94,870) represent 66.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (83,976) include 57.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 20 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 20 groups had 83,354 adherents in 1990 and 82,424 adherents in 2000, for a change of -1.1%

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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