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	329	75,843	61.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	321	223,561	181.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	210	76,746	62.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	49	16,511	13.4
National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA	Evangelical Protestant	49	5,636	4.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	49	11,157	9.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	48	5,801	4.7
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	44	7,661	6.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	30	10,575	8.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	29	60,283	49.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	28	7,272	5.9
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	26	1,630	1.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	26	10,554	8.6
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	22	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	19	4,580	3.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	15	5,801	4.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	12	4,821	3.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,814	2.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	11	3,742	3.0
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,029	1.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	9	8,925	7.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,534	2.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	9	14,200	11.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,743	1.4
Bahá'í	Other Theology	8	622	0.5
Buddhism	Other Theology	7	n.a.	n.a.
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	7	9,046	7.4
Duck River and Kindred Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	6	502	0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	5	316	0.3
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	5	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	5	668	0.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	4	6,000	4.9
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	172	0.1
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	785	0.6
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	4,100	3.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	604	0.5
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Hindu	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	574	0.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	3	387	0.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	485	0.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	215	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	229	0.2
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	176	0.1
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	18	0.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	1	150	0.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	0.1
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	1	540	0.4
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	891	0.7
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	250	0.2
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	95	0.1
Sikh	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	79	0.1
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	180	0.2
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	91	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	10	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	78	0.1
Coptic Orthodox Church	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	282	0.2
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,474	592,104
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		735,704

The population of these 8 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 985,026; in 2000 it was 1,231,311. The total population changed 25.0%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (592,104) include 48.1% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (735,704) include 59.7% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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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