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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,323	123.9%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+21,853	81.7%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+369	550.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+148	69.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+353	120.9%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+86	9.7%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	-77	-15.5%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+783	193.3%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-12	-3.6%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	+296	10.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+274	21.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+216	166.2%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	+250	45.5%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+2	+3,450	460.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+810	88.4%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	+9	22.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-45	-58.4%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-347	-7.5%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+167	26.6%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+89	130.9%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+369	124.2%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+3,952	69.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+150	141.5%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	+1,845	119.3%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	+460	9.7%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-120	-43.8%
	Totals:	+23	+36,651	+66.6%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 152,099; in 2000 it was 251,377. The total population changed 65.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (57,296) represent 37.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (92,607) include 36.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 26 groups had 54,991 adherents in 1990 and 91,642 adherents in 2000, for a change of 66.6%

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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