Naples, FL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

20,748	17,849	422	48,590	4,998	158,770
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^†
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	632	7.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	6	16,600	193.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	220	2.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	187	2.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	5	589	6.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	243	2.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	128	1.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	205	2.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	5	1,366	15.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	768	8.9
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	112	1.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	611	7.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	4	2,891	33.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	302	3.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	164	1.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	6	3,949	45.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	73	0.9
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	801	9.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	6	3,335	38.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	54	33,226

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 85,971. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (33,226) include 38.6% 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.