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	+5	+1,759	278.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+3	+31,990	193.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+386	772.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+142	64.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+458	245.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+381	65.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+178	73.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+1,060	828.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+112	55.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	+1,668	122.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+812	106.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+346	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+255	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+800	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+2	+4,200	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,115	182.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+1	+87	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+32	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+1,366	47.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+494	164.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+157	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+502	306.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+5,703	144.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+183	251.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+2	+2,590	323.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	+1,890	57.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+154	n.a.
	Totals:	+50	+58,820	+177.6%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 85,971; in 2000 it was 251,377. The total population changed 65.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (33,226) represent 38.6% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 27 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 27 groups had 33,114 adherents in 1980 and 91,934 adherents in 2000, for a change of 177.6%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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