Nashville, TN MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

395,499	113,589	690	60,283	22,043	639,207
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^†
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	326	75,666	76.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	262	198,724	201.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	220	75,510	76.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	49	16,167	16.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	47	9,518	9.7
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	45	6,732	6.8
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	43	8,284	8.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	29	37,698	38.3
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	28	5,946	6.0
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	25	1,522	1.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	24	5,779	5.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	23	7,491	7.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	22	9,213	9.4
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 God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,181	2.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	11	3,660	3.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,915	1.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,804	1.8
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	7	4,900	5.0
Duck River and Kindred Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	6	708	0.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,942	3.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	6	701	0.7
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	5	506	0.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	5	5,560	5.6
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	4,325	4.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	299	0.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	242	0.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	3	505	0.5
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	390	0.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	362	0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	482	0.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	1,855	1.9
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	236	0.2
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	12	0.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	0.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	18	0.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	123	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	210	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	81	0.1
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	57	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	199	0.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	23	0.0
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	76	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	0.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	61,870	62.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,291	562,157

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.