Montgomery, AL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

110,217	43,996		9,915	4,066	164,861
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	+3	+349	8.7%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-215	-33.2%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+1,675	20.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+112	74.2%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-83	-14.5%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-54	-20.6%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-19	-8.4%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+679	44.4%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	-2	-49	-2.6%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+4	1.3%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-268	-2.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+550	13.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-283	-36.8%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-1	-100	-7.7%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-59	-9.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	-2	-96	-65.8%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+405	1094.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+2	+36	2.1%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-10	-0.3%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+161	130.9%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-3	+170	7.8%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+9,043	12.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+42	62.7%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+260	159.5%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	+3,165	11.4%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+20	7.8%
	Totals:	+6	+15,435	+10.7%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 292,517; in 2000 it was 333,055. The total population changed 13.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (215,225) represent 73.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (168,194) include 50.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 27 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 27 groups had 144,201 adherents in 1990 and 159,636 adherents in 2000, for a change of 10.7%

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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