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Metro Area Membership Report
Nashville, TN MSA
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
262 |
198,724 |
201.7 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
326 |
75,666 |
76.8 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
220 |
75,510 |
76.7 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
61,870 |
62.8 |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
29 |
37,698 |
38.3 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
49 |
16,167 |
16.4 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
47 |
9,518 |
9.7 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
22 |
9,213 |
9.4 |
| Cumberland Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
43 |
8,284 |
8.4 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
23 |
7,491 |
7.6 |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
45 |
6,732 |
6.8 |
| Old Missionary Baptists Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
28 |
5,946 |
6.0 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
24 |
5,779 |
5.9 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
5 |
5,560 |
5.6 |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
4,900 |
5.0 |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
4,325 |
4.4 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
13 |
3,817 |
3.9 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
13 |
3,676 |
3.7 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
11 |
3,660 |
3.7 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
2,942 |
3.0 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
12 |
2,181 |
2.2 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
1,915 |
1.9 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
2 |
1,855 |
1.9 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
1,804 |
1.8 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
25 |
1,522 |
1.6 |
| Duck River and Kindred Baptists Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
708 |
0.7 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
701 |
0.7 |
| Primitive Baptists Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
506 |
0.5 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
3 |
505 |
0.5 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
2 |
482 |
0.5 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
390 |
0.4 |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
362 |
0.4 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
299 |
0.3 |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
242 |
0.3 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
236 |
0.2 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
210 |
0.2 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
199 |
0.2 |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
123 |
0.1 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
81 |
0.1 |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
76 |
0.1 |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
60 |
0.1 |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
57 |
0.1 |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
45 |
0.1 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
45 |
0.1 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
23 |
0.0 |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
22 |
0.0 |
| Church of God (Seventh Day) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
18 |
0.0 |
| Church of God General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
12 |
0.0 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 1,291 |
562,157 |
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The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 985,026. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (562,157) include 57.1% of the total population in 1990.
Source
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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†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.
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